Dr Muruga Raj Rajathurai is a practicing General Practitioner in Johor. He graduated from Kasturba Medical College, India in 1993 with a degree in medicine. He obtained his Masters in Business Administration 2019. His passion for law made him pursue a LLB (Hons) degree from University of London in 2021.

Dr Muruga Raj volunteered in Aceh, Indonesia during the 2004 Tsunami and also was a volunteer doctor for the Ukrainian refugees that were seeking shelter in Warsaw, Poland following the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022.

He is the current President of the Malaysian Medical Association and the President of the Commonwealth Medical Association. He is the Vice President of the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health and a Councillor for the Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania. He has held and currently holds various positions in the Ministry of Health committees in Malaysia and was also a Town Councillor with Majlis Perbandaran Pasir Gudang from 2008 to 2014.