Naing Ngan Lin (, born September 3, 1977) is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner who currently serves as a regional minister for social affairs and a

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MP for Dekkhinathiri Township. He is a member of the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy (, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (formerly Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victo ...

Biography

Naing Ngan Lin was born on September 3, 1977, in Thaton Township,

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to Aye Myint and Phyu. He moved to Yangon when he was about three years old. In 2006, he graduated in politics and government from

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. After graduation, he married his life partner, Sandar Win. He lives in

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with his wife, their son and his parents-in-law. He became involved in politics during the Saffron Revolution of 2007. In 2009, he was arrested and spent two months in prison. After he was released, he set up the United Front of Burmese Activists for Democracy. After

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was released from

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, she called on him to work with the NLD in 2010. He founded the Togetherness Free Education Network for Youth and, later, the Health Network with her guidance.

Political career

Naing Ngan Lin is a member of the National League for Democracy. In 2012, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the NLD. From then until the 2015 Myanmar general election, he was appointed to the national parliament in Naypyitaw. He tried to help his constituency people's problems. In 2015, He stood for the Yangon regional parliament with his colleagues Phyo Min Thein and Sandar Min. All three of them were elected. He was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw MP and elected representative from Dekkhinathiri Township parliamentary constituency at the 2015 Myanmar general election. He also serving as a Regional minister for social affairs for Yangon Region. In the wake of the

2021 Myanmar coup d'état A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when Elections in Myanmar, democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's milita ...

on 1 February, he was detained by the Myanmar Armed Forces.

Sword attack

During the campaign for

representative Wai Phyo Aung, six NLD members – including Naing Ngan Lin – were attacked by six assailants wielding swords at Manpyae Quarter in Thaketa on 29 October 2019. He suffered severe wounds and was hospitalized at Yangon General Hospital.

References

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