Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, in his first rally in the Kashmir Valley since he left the Congress party, on Sunday said that the restoration of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir was unlikely to happen. Article 370 granted special constitutional status to the erstwhile State and it was revoked by the Centre on August 5, 2019.
“For votes, I won’t mislead people like other parties. To restore Article 370, political parties would need a majority in the Lok Sabha of around 350 votes and 175 in the Rajya Sabha. This is a number no political party has or is likely to ever get. The number of Congress MPs (in the Lok Sabha) has come down to below 50 seats and if they speak of restoring Article 370, they are making false promises,” Mr. Azad said, during a public rally in north Kashmir’s Baramulla.
He was quick to add that a fresh law that can stop outsiders from applying in J&K can be even passed in the State Assembly.
