 However, the expressway project was dropped off, due to the loss of the Kelantanese Barisan Nasional state government to Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party-Semangat 46 coalition during the 1990 General Election.The project was later revived by the fifth Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as one of the projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, but was dropped off again ultimately after Datuk Seri Najib Razak became the sixth Prime Minister.As a result, the PAS-led Kelantan state government decided to construct the expressway by themselves.