Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has accepted the resignation of Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah days after he resigned during a public rally in Budgam.
The Speaker’s office, in a notification dated November 5 and issued under reference SO 6067(E), stated that Ruhullah, an elected member from the Srinagar parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, had resigned from his Lok Sabha seat and that his resignation had been accepted by the Speaker with effect from November 3.
With the acceptance of the resignation, the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat has fallen vacant. Ruhullah has not clarified whether he intends to contest the bypoll. For the National Conference, the Srinagar parliamentary seat is very important, and the party has already started looking for a strong candidate to contest from this constituency. In the past, the seat has been represented by three generations of the Abdullah family— Begum Akbar Jehan, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah.