Srinagar MP quits National Conference, resigns from Lok Sabha amid revolt against CM

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference’s Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, on Tuesday quit the party and resigned from his parliamentary seat.

Speaking at a gathering in Budgam, Mehdi said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was “incompetent” and accused the ruling party in the Union Territory of abandoning its promises made during the 2024 Assembly elections, including the restoration of Article 370.

The article gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and was abrogated on August 5, 2019. While abrogating it, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government had also bifurcated the state into two Union Territories: Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

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Email and hard copy will follow. pic.twitter.com/7bG5StrH55— Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi (@RuhullahMehdi) November 3, 2026

“You told people that you were the guardians of their dignity,” Mehdi said. “You said that if anyone touched that dignity, it would be like grabbing you by the collar. That dignity was buried on August 5, 2019. Tell me now, where is that dignity? Where is that autonomy?”

He said that he would not “sacrifice” his dignity for power.

Reacting to the remarks, the National Conference asked what Mehdi had done in Parliament to restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

“Wasn’t he elected to the Parliament to represent the sentiment...

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