PENANG, July 31 (Bernama) -- PAS state assemblyman for Permatang Pasir Datuk Mohd Hamdan Abdul Rahman died of heart ailment at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Kuala Lumpur Friday morning.
He was 63.
Penang PAS Commissioner Salleh Man said Mohd Hamdan died after undergoing treatment at IJN for several days.
He told Bernama that Mohd Hamdan's remains would arrive at his residence at 2pm and would be buried at the Permatang Pasir Muslim Cemetery here after the Asar prayers.
The former state PAS commissioner for 14 years was the Permatang Pasir assemblyman for three terms from 1999 and was the sole PAS assemblyman in the state. The Permatang Pasir state seat is in the Permatang Pauh parliamentary constituency.
Mohd Hamdan's brother, Mohd Shukran, said he died at about 7.15am. He leaves a widow, Datin Siti Khariah Ismail, and six children.
"My brother complained of chest pain and was taken to IJN by his children for a check-up and treatment. He had undergone heart surger several years ago," he said.
Mohd Hamdan's wife, did not accompany him to IJN because she was sick.
Mohd Hamdan retained the seat by garnering 11,004 votes to defeat the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate, Ahmad Sahar Shuib (5,571 votes), with a 5,433-vote majority in the general election last year.
He was conferred a datukship only three weeks ago in conjunction with the birthday of Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas.
A Kedahan, he studied at Sekolah Kebangsaan Wan Mohamad Saman, Sungai Korok, Alor Setar, and pursued Islamic religious education under a Kedah Islamic Religious Council sponsorship after obtaining the senior Cambridge certificate in 1963.
He took an intensive programme in public administration at Intan in 1970 and another course at the Customs Administration and Training College in Melaka in 1978.
He was a language teacher at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Kedah for two years from 1964, a Kedah state administrative officer from 1966 to 1977 and an administrative officer at the Royal Customs and Excise Department for six years after that.
Mohd Hamdan was also active in the youth movement, having been a committee member of the Malaysian Youth Council in 1973 and a state PAS representative in Pemadam from 1989 to 1999.
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