Not sure if Congress can get 300 seats in 2024 to restore Article 370: Ghulam Nabi Azad

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    Senior Congress leader and former Jammu & Kashmir CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that he does not see the grand old party winning 300 seats in the 2024 general elections to reverse the decision on Article 370.Addressing a rally in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch on Wednesday, the Congress leader noted that only the Supreme Court can reverse the decision on Article 370 or Congress has to come to power with 300 plus seats. Azad said that he prays that his party gets 300+ seats in the elections but he doesn’t see it happening in the next polls.“Only Supreme Court can decide on Article 370 or the ruling government can do it. But how will they do it if they abrogated it? For revocation of this decision, Congress needs the support of 300 plus MPs and under the current scenario, I don’t think that we will be able to grab 300 plus Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections. I wish, God willing, we could achieve this target, but the chances are bleak,” he said.The Modi government had abrogated Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and bifurcated it into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir division; and Ladakh division. The government has said that the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir will be restored at an appropriate time.