KUALA LUMPUR: Former National Unity and Community Development Minister, Tan Sri Dr. Siti Zaharah Sulaiman died yesterday at 11.23pm. She was 75. UMNO Supreme Council Member and Maran UMNO Division Chief, Datuk Seri Shahaniza Samsuddin made the announcement on her Facebook page. She was former UMNO Wanita chief and Member of Parliament for Paya Besar.

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إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ

Saya berasa amat sedih menerima perkhabaran duka pemergian kakanda saya Tan Sri Dr Siti Zaharah Sulaiman, mantan Ketua Wanita UMNO Malaysia dan Menteri Perpaduan dan Pembangunan Masyarakat.

Allahyarhamah merupakan seorang wanita yang… pic.twitter.com/WE0crL2RYI
— Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (@DrZahidHamidi) July 27, 2024

Siti Zaharah served as national unity and community development minister from December 1999 to March 2004. She was also a minister in the prime minister’s department between 1996 and 1999. In 1996, she defeated incumbent Rafidah Aziz in the Umno elections to become Wanita Umno chief, but lost to Rafidah in the party polls four years later. She was a five-term MP.