SRINAGAR: Nationwide Convention (NC) MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi accused Thursday his personal celebration’s govt in J&Ok of “failing to meet electoral guarantees and following BJP’s method of mere political slogans”.Mehdi, important of the management for almost a yr, launched the newest assault from chief minister Omar Abdullah’s meeting constituency Ganderbal because the NC started a two-day working committee assembly below president Farooq Abdullah and the CM, who can also be celebration vice-president.“We sought votes for restoration of constitutional ensures below Article 370, and it was one of many principal causes we acquired an enormous mandate within the (Oct 2024 meeting) polls. We promised to try for the discharge of political prisoners. We should fulfill all commitments. We will not undertake BJP’s language after coming to workplace,” the Srinagar MP instructed supporters in Ganderbal.Based on Mehdi, NC’s election marketing campaign final yr was centered on Article 370 but it surely has targeted on in search of statehood (restoration) since taking workplace. “If we shift from Article 370 to statehood, we’re aligning with BJP’s line,” the MP argued.Mehdi claimed ignorance about NC’s assembly. “I’m a everlasting member of the working committee. That is the primary time since 2002 that I’ve not been invited,” the MP stated.Mehdi prompt that his disagreements with the celebration stemmed from his insistence that it should work on the problems over which votes had been sought. “A yr has handed. Now we have not labored on our political and governance agenda. Now we have not rationalized reservations in J&Ok. We can not inform open-merit candidates who’re crossing the age bar that we nonetheless have 5 years to behave,” Mehdi stated, including the federal government had not additionally stored its promise of 200 items of free electrical energy.Insisting that he was not protesting towards his celebration however reminding it of its guarantees and manifesto, Mehdi identified that J&Ok’s folks had reposed belief in mainstream political events after a very long time final yr, handing NC a giant mandate that have to be honoured.Mehdi brushed away at statements by deputy CM Surinder Choudhary asking the MP to boost points in Parliament as an alternative of attempting to remain within the limelight. “He (Choudhary) was earlier with BJP, then he joined PDP, and now he’s in NC. In his politics there is no such thing as a precept, no route, no worth,” Mehdi stated.The MP additionally criticized the Omar-led authorities over a demolition drive within the Valley towards settlers, saying folks had voted for NC in order that “what is occurring in Uttar Pradesh doesn’t occur in Kashmir”.