Career
In 2000, he urged Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society to accept female candidates for general elections, a position that was later adopted by the party. He was elected to the federal seat of Kota Bharu in 2008. He initially sought to retire at the 2013 election, but instead contested the seat of Gua Musang, losing to its long-time incumbent Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah of the United Malays National Organisation.
