Rajiv Rishyakaran (Tamil: ரஜிவ் ரிஷ்யகரன்) (born 12 October 1981) is a Malaysian
politician. He is also the second-term member of the Selangor State Legislative
Assembly representing the seat of Bukit Gasing since 2013 from the Democratic
Action Party (DAP), a component of Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.
Rajiv Rishyakaran was born on 12 October 1981, at Hospital Universiti,
Kuala Lumpur. Rajiv is the eldest of five (5) brothers. His father, Rishyakaran
Karthigasu (1949-) is a retired Ministry of Health officer whilst his mother,
Rajini Chandrapal (1953-) retired from teaching to be a homemaker. Rajiv was
born and bred in the Klang Valley, apart from a brief relocation to Ipoh, Perak
(from age 10-15) where his father was based as a civil servant. The family
later moved to Subang Jaya, Selangor where Rajiv finished secondary school.
Rajiv attended Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn, Johor, graduating in
2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in Instrumentation
& Automation. Upon graduation, Rajiv worked in Kuala Lumpur as a project
engineer with Prestige Engineering Sdn. Bhd. In 2013, Rajiv married Ana Gella
Opong, whom he first met in 2010 as a fellow delegate at the Young Progressives
of South East Asia (YPSEA) 2010 Climate Change conference in the Philippines.