Interview: ‘Everyone expected once Omar Abdullah walks out, something will happen. But nothing did.’ Interview: ‘Everyone expected once Omar Abdullah walks out, something will happen. But nothing did.’ Aga Syed Ruhullah, who resigned as the chief spokesperson of the National Conference, explains why he is unhappy with the timidity of his party leadership. Aga Syed Ruhullah at his residence in Budgam, Kashmir. | Safwat Zargar On March 30, a party convention of the National Conference in Kashmir’s Budgam district witnessed something unusual. A three-time Member of Legislative Assembly from Budgam and a former cabinet minister, Aga Syed Ruhullah, warned party workers against becoming “collaborators” with those who had accepted the changed status of Jammu and Kashmir. On August 5, 2019, Indian Parliament had stripped the erstwhile state of its special constitutional autonomy under Article 370 and bifurcated it into two union territories.