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| Zanskar must be merged with Leh district, say Buddhists | | 'Sheikh's conspiracy' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 10: Buddhists in Leh district are unhappy over the manner in which Sheikh Abdullah divided Ladakh district in 1978 to create Kargil district out of Buddhist-majority Ladakh. Ladakh had four tehsils - Leh, Nubra, Zanskar and Kargil. Leh was more than 90 per cent Buddhist, Nubra also over 90 per cent Buddhist and Zanskar almost 100 per cent Buddhists with a few families of other community residing in village Padam. Kargil was the only tehsil where Buddhists were a microscopic minority.
The grievance of the Buddhists of Leh district comprising Leh and Nubra tehsil is that Sheikh Abdullah didn't do justice to Buddhists of Ladakh linking the almost 100 per cent Buddhist Zanskar tehsil with Kargil. "Zanskar should have been part of Leh district as it was 100 per cent Buddhist. By making Zanzkar part of Kargil district, Sheikh Abdullah undermined the Buddhist-majority character of the region. It was a bad and communally-motivated decision and this wrong needed to be corrected," say Buddhist leaders.
Leh based Buddhist and other leaders, including those belonging to Congress and BJP, also accuse the state government of not constructing an-all weather road between Leh and Zanskar and have repeatedly urged the Union Government to construct such a road so that "they and the Buddhists of Zanskar work for each other and protect their identity".
In the mean time, Buddhists have decided to take up the Zanskar issue in a big way. |
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