{"id":3231,"date":"2025-11-06T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:34:42","slug":"ls-by-polls-mp-ruhullah-wont-endorse-any-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/ls-by-polls-mp-ruhullah-wont-endorse-any-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"LS By-Polls: MP Ruhullah won\u2019t endorse any candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 06:<\/strong>\u00a0As the electoral contest in the Budgam Assembly constituency intensifies, Member of Parliament from Srinagar, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi has decided against endorsing any particular candidate and has left it to the people to make their own decision, sources disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that Ruhullah, who holds considerable influence in the segment, has chosen not to endorse or support any candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has placed faith in the people to make their own choice(s). He wouldn\u2019t ask them to vote for any particular candidate,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time MLA Ruhullah, who has emerged as the most vocal voice for the restoration of Article 370, is at odds with the National Conference over a range of issues and did not campaign for the party.<\/p>\n<p>His latest disagreement with the National Conference centers on the rationalization of reservation. On October 18, Ruhullah demanded that the cabinet sub-committee\u2019s report on reservation be made public, stating that his future decision regarding the Budgam by-polls would be guided by the contents of the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Budgam seat, vacated following Omar Abdullah\u2019s resignation, is set to go to polls on November 11. The constituency is witnessing a direct contest between National Conference\u2019s Aga Mehmood and Peoples Democratic Party candidate Aga Muntazir Mehdi, while independent candidate Nazir Ahmad Khan, supported by the Awami Ittehad Party, is gaining ground-adding complexity to the race.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders in the fray include Aga Syed Mohsin (BJP), Jibran Dar (Independent), Muntazir Mohiuddin (Independent), Deeba Khan (Aam Aadmi Party), Mukthar Dar (Apni Party), and Sameer Ahmad (Independent)<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 06:\u00a0As the electoral contest in the Budgam Assembly constituency intensifies, Member of Parliament from Srinagar, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi has decided against endorsing any particular candidate and has left it to the people to make their own decision, sources disclosed. Sources said that Ruhullah, who holds considerable influence in the segment, has chosen not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}