Budgam: Lok Sabha member from Srinagar, , resigned from the party as well as Parliament. Launching a scathing attack on the party, he termed it a "stinking drain" that has reneged on all the promises, including those related to Article 370, made to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.




Mehdi announced his resignation at a gathering of his supporters in a park in his hometown of Budgam. He handed over his resignation from NC to Muhammad Ashraf Mattoo, the father of teenager , who was allegedly killed by security forces in 2010, when was the CM of the erstwhile state of J&K and Mehdi was a minister.




Mehdi resigned on the death anniversary of his father Aga Syed Mehdi, who was assassinated on November 3, 2000, in an IED blast. His supporters carried banners, 'Wada Kursi Se Bada Hai' (promise is bigger than chair).




On Mehdi's resignation, NC in a statement said "it was manifestation of moral and mental bankruptcy and an example of self obsession". NC said that Mehdi himself has done nothing for the causes he espouses and believes in empty rhetoric.