Salahuddin Ayub


Salahuddin bin Ayub is a Malaysian politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry from May 2018 to his resignation and the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan administration in February 2020 under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Salahuddin is also the Member of Parliament for the Pulai and the Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly for Simpang Jeram concurrently. He is the Deputy President of Parti Amanah Negara, a component party of Pakatan Harapan coalition.
Salahuddin was a former member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Kubang Kerian constituency in Kelantan representing the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party in the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition for two terms from 2004 to 2013. He was a former vice-president of PAS and also former head of PAS's youth wing. But he together with a few other progressive leaders referred as G18 was ousted at the party's 2015 Muktamar which has launched Gerakan Harapan Baru that founded the new AMANAH party later.
Salahuddin was born on 1 December 1961 in Kampung Serkat, Tanjung Piai, Pontian, Johor, and went to schools in Pontian. He studied a Diploma in Business Administration at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Salahuddin earlier involved in PAS since 1999 and was selected by PAS to contest the Johor State Legislative Assembly state seat of Benut in the 1999 general election but lost. He was the picked to contest federal parliamentary seat of Kubang Kerian, Kelantan in the 2004 general election which he had won. He was re-elected again in 2008 general election. For the 2013 election he returned to his home state of Johor to contest the parliamentary seat of Pulai, losing to its Barisan Nasional incumbent Nur Jazlan Mohamed. He also contested, and lost the Johor seat of Nusajaya. In the 2018 general election, Salahuddin for the first time contested under AMANAH of Pakatan Harapan and won both the federal parliamentary seat of Pulai and the Johor state seat of Simpang Jeram.

Biodata

Salahuddin bin Ayub was born on December 1, 1961 in Kampung Serkat, Tanjung Piai, Pontian, Johor and an ethnic Malay-Chinese peranakan. He married his wife, Fatimah Taha, in 1985 and the couple have been blessed with 6 children.

Education

He was educated at the Serkat English Primary School, Pontian. Later, he continued to study at the lower secondary level at the Teluk Kerang English Secondary School, Pontian and at Sri Perhentian Secondary School, Pontian until completion of form 5, pursuing a 6th grade at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Datuk Penggawa Barat, Pontian. He also attended religious education at Johor State Religious School with a Special Class of Class in 1977. After graduating from school, he pursued a Diploma in Business Administration at Tunku Abdul Rahman College and went on to stage Bachelor of BSc. at Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1984.

Career and politics

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