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SRI NAGAR: A day after former Congress leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said restoration of Article 370 was unlikely, the Congress on Monday slammed Azad saying he was BJP’s man in Kashmir and acting as advocate of PM Narendra Modi with a mission to divide secular votes to benefit saffron party.
Former J&K Congress chief G A Mir told this newspaper that Azad is working on BJP’s project. “He is working on Modi’s project and honourably said that 2/3rd majority is needed to get Article 370 back”.He said it is a subjudice and the matter is in Supreme court. “Whether it is heard today or a year later or two years later, everybody has hopes with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has given its judgments twice on Article 370.”
The bill, which was passed by the Parliament on August 5, 2019, will be authenticated only when the J & K Assembly passes resolution in this regard, said Mir. “The BJP knows it and is running away from elections. They know if the opposition gets a majority in the Assembly, the resolution opposing Article 370 revocation will be passed.”Azad ignored both these options and talked of majority in the Parliament, he said.
“We will wait for a majority in the Parliament. We don’t say we will get it back tomorrow,” he said.In his first political rally in Kashmir after quitting Congress, Azad had said on Sunday that Article 370 restoration is unlikely to happen as a two-thirds majority is needed in Parliament for restoration of J&K’s special status.
SRI NAGAR: A day after former Congress leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said restoration of Article 370 was unlikely, the Congress on Monday slammed Azad saying he was BJP’s man in Kashmir and acting as advocate of PM Narendra Modi with a mission to divide secular votes to benefit saffron party.
Former J&K Congress chief G A Mir told this newspaper that Azad is working on BJP’s project. “He is working on Modi’s project and honourably said that 2/3rd majority is needed to get Article 370 back”.
He said it is a subjudice and the matter is in Supreme court. “Whether it is heard today or a year later or two years later, everybody has hopes with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has given its judgments twice on Article 370.”
The bill, which was passed by the Parliament on August 5, 2019, will be authenticated only when the J & K Assembly passes resolution in this regard, said Mir. “The BJP knows it and is running away from elections. They know if the opposition gets a majority in the Assembly, the resolution opposing Article 370 revocation will be passed.”Azad ignored both these options and talked of majority in the Parliament, he said.
“We will wait for a majority in the Parliament. We don’t say we will get it back tomorrow,” he said.
In his first political rally in Kashmir after quitting Congress, Azad had said on Sunday that Article 370 restoration is unlikely to happen as a two-thirds majority is needed in Parliament for restoration of J&K’s special status.
