AAP MLA allegedly assaulted in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for remarks about BJP, PDP founder

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Mehraj Malik was allegedly assaulted outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Wednesday over his purported disparaging remarks about the Bharatiya Janata Party and about late Peoples Democratic Party leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, The Indian Express reported.

After the House was adjourned during the day, a few Peoples Democratic Party leaders, including Arif Amin, lashed out at the MLA from Doda, while he was talking to reporters, for his “derogatory remarks” about Sayeed, the founder of the PDP and a former chief minister.

Security personnel prevented a physical clash between the AAP MLA and the Peoples Democratic Party members.

Malik later demanded that the police should arrest the PDP workers who allegedly assaulted him, PTI reported. “Whatever I said, I will not retreat from it,” the AAP MLA said. “He [Sayeed] is a traitor for me.”

#WATCH | Jammu: AAP MLA Mehraaj Malik gets into a heated argument with PDP MLA Waheed Para inside the J&K legislative assembly. pic.twitter.com/O5AX1MO7ff— ANI (@ANI) April 9, 2025

The AAP MLA had been involved in an altercation with the same Peoples Democratic Party leaders inside the Assembly complex a day earlier too, according to The Indian Express.

On Wednesday, he claimed that the police failed to take action against those who assaulted an MLA and accused them of acting like...

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