Prime Minister Najib Razak's thunder from yesterday's Budget 2014 announcement appears shortlived as 13 Negri Sembilan Umno branches have called on him to quit as party president.

Taman TKK branch chief Kamarul Azman Habibur Rahman, who headed the group, said the grassroots urged Najib to resign in order to save Umno from disaster at the next general election, due in 2018.