SRINAGAR: Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi as soon as once more launched a pointy assault on his personal occasion, Nationwide Convention, accusing it abandoning Article 370 and “begging” for statehood.Addressing his followers in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday, Mehdi mentioned for the primary time in 40 years, individuals voted in giant numbers within the Oct 2024 meeting polls as a result of they have been annoyed with the system. “They didn’t vote for any occasion, however for a system that will be answerable to them,” Mehdi mentioned. However, regardless of cutting down on the political entrance, “we’ve got been changed into beggars”, he mentioned.“It’s higher to battle for our rights and be defeated than to resort to begging day-after-day for each small factor,” he asserted.Mehdi, who was invited by the civil society of Anantnag to deal with individuals on the city corridor, alleged that the district administration locked the constructing, forcing organisers to alter the venue. “Individuals have been threatened and intimidated to not attend my assembly. If such ways are adopted, the place are we alleged to go?” he questioned.Referring to the arrest of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik below Public Security Act, Mehdi mentioned it was a warning to all political voices.Iftikhar Misgar, president of Anantnag Federation of Chambers of Industries Kashmir, mentioned the MP was scheduled to deal with the gathering on the city corridor, however the administration on Thursday declared the constructing unsafe and locked it, although forest minister Javed Rana had addressed a gathering there only a day earlier.Reacting to Mehdi’s allegation, former CM and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti mentioned it was “unlucky” {that a} sitting MP was not allowed to carry a gathering by his personal govt. “At a time when Farooq sahib and Omar sahib are rightly voicing concern over the arrest of MLA Mehraj Malik, such restrictions on their very own occasion’s MP increase severe questions. It exposes a disturbing stage of double requirements and political hypocrisy,” she mentioned.