Kedah BN can sweep more than two-thirds majority – Ahmad Bashah

(Bernama) — Kedah Barisan Nasional (BN) can not only wrest the state back from Pas in the next election but win by more than two thirds majority, said its chairman Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah.

He said this was not impossible in view of the fact that the people had full confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“We are confident of winning 31 of the 36 seats in the state assembly,” he told reporters after opening a leadership course for Kedah Wanita Umno members here Saturday.

Some 500 Kedah Wanita Umno leaders from the branch level attended the one-day course.

Now, PAS controls 16 seats in the Kedah state assembly followed by the BN (14 seats), PKR (three), DAP (one) and two independents, who were previously from PKR.

Ahmad Bashah, who is also Kedah Umno chief, added that the BN election machinery in the state was in a high state of readiness to face a general election, which needs to be called at the latest by 2013.