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| Centre to address all issues of Ladakh before Lok Sabha polls | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 31: After inviting all agitating Ladakh groups for talks, the Union Government is going to solve all issues related to the Union Territory of Ladakh before the Lok Sabha elections.
As the BJP has won the Ladakh Lok Sabha seat for two successive terms in 2014 and 2019, the party wants to repeat the same performance in the 2024 elections.
Important to mention here that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has again invited a delegation of Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) for talks in New Delhi to solve their issues once and for all.
After holding a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in February this year to highlight their demands, the agitating groups of Ladkah were waiting for the response of the Union Government.
Instead of announcing a calendar for their ongoing agitation, these groups had decided to give some time to the BJP-led government at the Centre to open a channel of communication to discuss their demands.
Representatives from Ladakh had staged a dharna at the Jantar Mantar in support of their demands.
Activists of two frontline organizations—Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) and Leh Apex Body (LAB) participated in the protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Some students of Ladakh, studying in New Delhi and adjoining areas, also attended the dharna.
The KDA and the LAB have been spearheading the agitation in support of their four major demands including full-fledged statehood for Ladakh, implementation of the Sixth Schedule to protect the interest of the tribal people of Ladakh, separate Lok Sabha seats for Kargil and Leh, and establishment of Ladakh Public Service Commission with the Ladakh Resident Certificate (LRC) as a mandatory requirement for all Gazetted Posts in Ladakh.
Ladakh was carved into a Union Territory without legislature when Articles 370 and 35A were abrogated, and Jammu and Kashmir were bifurcated into two Union Territories. Over the last two years, protests have been held in both Leh and Kargil demanding the protection of the interests of the people of Ladakh. |
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