{"id":34072,"date":"2026-11-03T01:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=34072"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:58:46","slug":"ruhullah-mehdi-to-resign-from-lok-sabha-nc-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/ruhullah-mehdi-to-resign-from-lok-sabha-nc-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruhullah Mehdi to resign from Lok Sabha, NC tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Srinagar, Nov 02: <\/strong>All eyes will be on Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi tomorrow as he is set to announce his decision to resign from the Lok Sabha during a rally in central Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Ruhullah said he would resign from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I will resign from the Lok Sabha tomorrow,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruhullah is set to quit both the National Conference and the Lok Sabha over differences with the party on issues including Article 370 and other emotive matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A three-time MLA from the Budgam Assembly segment, Ruhullah won the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat in 2024 by defeating PDP candidate Waheed Ur Rehman Para by a record margin of 1.88 lakh votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruhullah, who catapulted to the centre stage of Jammu and Kashmir politics for his outspoken stand on Article 370, also played a key role in the National Conference&#8217;s victories in the 2024 Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MP is known for his strong advocacy of issues related to Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s political rights, and reservation policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Ruhullah&#8217;s resignation, the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat will fall vacant, necessitating a by-election within six months. The bypoll is likely to witness a direct contest between Ruhullah and the National Conference, although other political players are also expected to enter the fray<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 02: All eyes will be on Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi tomorrow as he is set to announce his decision to resign from the Lok Sabha during a rally in central Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam district. Talking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Ruhullah said he would resign from the Lok Sabha on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34073,"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":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34072","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=34072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34074,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34072\/revisions\/34074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}