A week after he announced his decision to quit the party and Lok Sabha, Karra sent his resignation to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today.
The PDP MP from Srinagar parliamentary constituency said he was forced to take the extreme step to register his "strong protest" against the unabated killings, grievous injuries and "repression and suppression" let loose on the people of Kashmir and the "failure of Parliament", Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government "to find a way out of this painful situation".
"For the first time in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, people of Kashmir were forced not to offer Eid prayers," he said in the letter in which he has asked the Lok Sabha Speaker to accept his resignation with effect from September 15.
He said in the prevailing situations, "which is very critical", there is an urgency of responding to it beyond party politics.
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He said the need of hour is that the government must reinforce its resolve to work through peaceful means and through public participation towards restoration of peace.
"The views of the people of the state, cutting across the political divide, have to be respected and responded to for the permanent settlement of the issue instead of resorting to hegemonic mindset," he said.
61-year-old Karra had announced his resignation on September 16, blaming the PDP-BJP alliance for the current turmoil saying "the seeds of deceit, disillusionment and disenchantment were sown in the minds and hearts of people the day the PDP tied an alliance with the BJP ...It was an unnatural alliance."
A one time close confidant of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Karra, who had defeated National Conference president Farooq Abdullah in 2014 Lok Sabha polls by a margin of 40,000 votes, had also accused the PDP of "working on the RSS-agenda".