Son aims to win where father could not in Pengkalan Batu

Norhizam (centre) talking to a trader during his walkabout at the temporary Pasar Besar Melaka in Jalan Tun Fatimah, Bachang.

MELAKA: State DAP deputy chairman Norhizam Hassan Baktee hopes to achieve what his father could not over three decades ago – win the Pengkalan Batu state seat.

Norhizam’s late father, Hassan Baktee Mohd, had contested the seat – known as Peringgit then – three times in the general elections between the 1970s and early 1980s as a DAP candidate and lost.