Jammu, July 15 -- The Congress found itself in an awkward political situation on Wednesday after senior party leader and former Union Minister Prof. Saifuddin Soz publicly asserted that the real issue for Jammu and Kashmir was not the restoration of statehood but the revival of Article 370 and internal autonomy.
Soz's remarks came at a time when the Congress has been aggressively campaigning for the restoration of statehood under its "Hamari Riyasat, Hamara Haq" campaign, a demand that has become the party's principal political plank in Jammu and Kashmir after the Centre bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union Territories following the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35-A on August 5, 2019.
The veteran Congress leader's statem...