The loss of Perak in the 12th General Election (GE12) was most surprising and the Pakatan Rakyat government was not expected to last very long.
On Jan 26, 2009, the then-Bota assemblyman Datuk Nasaruddin Hashim left Umno and announced his intention to join PKR.
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