KUALA LUMPUR: The country's first MP from the Orang Asli community, Datuk Ramli Mohd Noor, made history as he sat in as temporary Dewan Rakyat Speaker to fill in for Tan Sri Azhar Azizan Harun who was away chairing a 2.30pm Special Chamber meeting on Tuesday (March 1).
Such a move is allowed under Standing Order 7(3), which states that the speaker may, at any time during a sitting, ask a member to take the chair temporarily without formal communication to the house.
