However, he refused to comment further on the seats in question.

“There is no need for me to mention the areas that we will be contesting in, and if someone out there says that Kelantan Umno has big ambitions, indeed, in a battle, we need to have big aspirations. God willing, we will achieve the target (of winning the contested seats).

“For the parliamentary seats, it is not impossible for us to set that target, considering the fact that in GE11, which was in 2004, we won nine parliamentary seats,” he said after launching the Kelantan Umno veterans’ machinery for GE15 and the “Keluargaku Pengundi Barisan Nasional (BN)” campaign at Kolej Kemahiran Tinggi Mara, Lubok Jong, Rantau Panjang, near here today.

Ahmad Jazlan, who is also Machang MP, said the state Umno was currently drawing up the list of potential candidates before handing it over to party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

“If possible we want to highlight as many new faces as possible, while not marginalising the existing leadership and old faces, because this combination is very important,” he said.

Kelantan has a total of 14 parliamentary and 45 state assembly seats. In GE14, Kelantan BN won five parliamentary and eight state seats.