Lok Sabha Speaker accepts Srinagar MP's resignation
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Thursday accepted the resignation of Srinagar MP Tariq Hameed Karra, who had resigned to protest against the "failure" of the Parliament to end violence in Kashmir. Karra, a founder member of PDP tendered his resignation in September, blaming the PDP-BJP alliance in the state for the violence. He had also quit from the party.