INTERVIEW | When Malacca DAP deputy chairperson Norhizam Hassan Baktee won the Pengkalan Batu state seat in the 14th general election, he finally achieved what his own father could not back in the 1980s.

Norhizam's father, Hassan Baktee Mohd, was a DAP member who contested twice for the seat previously known as Peringgit, at a time when Malay sentiment against the party was very high...