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| Centre to depute team to hold talks with agitating leaders in Ladakh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 3: Taking serious note of the resumption of agitation which was suspended a year back, the Union Government will depute a team of senior officers to hold talks with the agitating leaders.
Highly placed sources said that Union Government is not happy with the unfolding developments in the Union Territory of Ladakh so the Centre has decided to intervene to save the situation from worsening.
After maintaining silence for one year, residents of Ladakh revived their stir for granting statehood and constitutional rights by observing a bandh on Wednesday.
The bandh was jointly observed in the twin mountainous towns of Leh and Kargil as the call for observing the strike was jointly given by the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) and Leh Apex Body (LAB).
Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) together with the Leh Apex Body (LAB), a collective of several trade unions, tourist bodies, and religious and political groups, observed a Ladakh bandh on November 2 to press for their core demands, including Statehood for the Union Territory, which was carved out of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
The KDA and the LAB apex body claim to represent the majority voice in Ladakh and see the current Union Territory status sans a legislative assembly as political marginalization.
Except for BJP, all political parties supported the bandh call. The BJP, which rules Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Leh, stayed away from the agitational programme in Ladakh. The BJP has distanced itself from the LAB as well as KDA on the ground that the grant of Union Territory was a major demand of Ladakhis which was accepted by the Central Government on August 5, 2019.
The agitation for statehood and constitutional rights started way back in 2020 when the Apex Committee of the Peoples’ Movement of Ladakh was constituted.
This committee raised the demand for statehood for the Union Territory and separate Lok Sabha seats for the Leh and Kargil districts.
On the call of the Apex Committee, a complete bandh was earlier observed in the whole of Ladakh on December 13, 2021.
In January 2021 the Union Government had formed a committee, headed by the then Minister of States (MoS) Home G Kishan Reddy to resolve the issues related to the conservation of Ladakhi language, culture, ethnicity, land, jobs, and participation of locals in development projects. |
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