Once sleepy Kepala Batas now an educational hub and bustling township


Masjid Abdullah Fahim is one of the landmarks in Kepala Batas.– BERNAMA

IT is hard to believe that thefast-evolving Kepala Batas constituency on mainland Penang was once a sleepy one-street town in the 1970s.

The constituency comprising Penaga, Bertam and Pinang Tunggal is becoming a bustling township, thanks in no small part to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was Kepala Batas MP between 1978 and 2013.

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