National Conference Member of Parliament Aga Ruhullah Mehdi staged a protest outside the residence of his party vice president and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, today. The protest, attended by students and leaders from opposition camp in the Union Territory, was over the reservation scheme, which Mehdi alleges discriminates against open merit category students in the Union Territory. …
The Srinagar Lok Sabha seat will vote on May 13 amid a poll fever in the once ‘boycott capital’ of Jammu & Kashmir, which saw less than 14% voting in 2019. The NC’s Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi and the PDP’s Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra emerged as the main voices to represent their respective political parties’ ideological opposition to the BJP’s move to …
National Conference candidate Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, contesting from the Srinagar-Budgam seat, on April 29 apologised to Kashmir Pandits for the party’s failure to stop their migration in the wake of growing militancy in the 1990s. “It was the grim and beyond-control situation that drove Kashmiri Pandits away from Kashmir and not us. The NC leader said his party wanted to …
National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Friday announced the names of Omar Abdullah and Shia cleric Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi as the party’s candidates from Baramulla and Srinagar constituencies, respectively, for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Mr. Omar Abdullah, while speaking on his nomination, sought to project the upcoming election as a fight between the BJP’s proxies and the …
