Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz


Ikmal Hisham bin Abdul Aziz is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Tanah Merah since May 2013. He served as the Deputy Minister of Defence for the second term in the Barisan Nasional administration under former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Hishammuddin Hussein from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term in the Perikatan Nasional administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Ismail Sabri from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021. He is a Supreme Council Member and the Division Chief of Tanah Merah of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party, a component party of the PN and formerly Pakatan Harapan coalitions and was a member of the United Malays National Organisation, a component party of the Barisan Nasional coalition. After the defeat of BN to PH in 2018 general election, he resigned from UMNO in 2018 and joined BERSATU in 2019.
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Political career

In May 2013, Ikmal first contested to become an MP in the 13th Malaysian general election and subsequently won the Tanah Merah seat with a majority of 4747.
He was successfully re-elected as MP for the same seat in the 14th Malaysian general election.
He resigned from UMNO to be an Independent politician in 2018.
Presently he is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party or Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia, a component of Perikatan Nasional government.

Controversy

Alleged vaping in the Dewan Rakyat

On 19 September 2023, PN MPs staged a walkout from the Dewan Rakyat chamber as a sign of protest against the decision of the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, Johari Abdul in not demanding Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to apologise for his comments on the Putrajaya MP, Radzi Jidin. During the walkout, he was photographed by the photographer of Prime Minister Anwar allegedly vaping while still being in the chamber. He strongly denied the allegations and claiming he was holding a pen in his mouth. He also filed a police report against the photographer for accusing him of vaping in Dewan Rakyat.

Honours

Honours of Malaysia