Sivakumar, the speaker under rain-tree now a minister

V Sivakumar, who was appointed as Human Resources Minister, had created history in Perak or if not probably Malaysian political history as, during his tenure as state speaker, the Perak state assembly was convened and held under a rain-tree on March 3, 2009.

Sivakumar had called for an emergency sitting to table motions on the takeover of the state government.