Senior Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday mentioned he doesn’t assume his get together will get 300 seats within the subsequent Lok Sabha elections because the scenario prevails.
Publicly justifying his silence on Article 370, Azad mentioned solely the Supreme Court, the place the matter is pending, and the Center can reinstate it. Addressing a rally in Krishna Ghati space of ​​Poonch district, he mentioned that for the reason that BJP-led central authorities abrogated Article 370, it could not reinstate it.
“And when will now we have 300 MPs [to form government] on one’s personal? So, I am unable to promise to do it [restore Article 370] As now we have to carry 300 MPs in 2024. Come what could. god get us 300 [MPs], however at present I do not see it. So I cannot make any false guarantees and can chorus from speaking about Article 370.
Currently on a go to to Poonch and Rajouri, Azad not too long ago mentioned in Kashmir that speaking about Article 370 is irrelevant, including that his important calls for are restoration of the state in Jammu and Kashmir and early meeting elections.
His assertion drew criticism from NC vice-president Omar Abdullah, who mentioned the senior Congress chief had given up on the matter even earlier than the Supreme Court listening to.
Responding, Azad mentioned that he has been opposing the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into two union territories. “I have been alone speaking about this in Parliament for the last three years,” he mentioned. “Our fight with the government is that when Article 370 was abrogated and the state was bifurcated, I said that the central government has the right to bring changes in the constitution, but it will come through the assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, Not through Parliament,” Azad mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
