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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 6
Out rightly rejecting the Working Group report on State-Centre relations headed by Justice (retd) Sagheer Ahmed, Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) has warned the Union Government over any attempt to implement the recommendations, saying ongoing agitation could turn violent.
“If the Government of India continues to ignore the aspirations of the people of Ladakh, the latter would be left no option rather go for violent protests to get Union Territory status for them,” Chering Dorje, Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) Ladakh Autonomus Hill Development Council told reporters here.
Flanked by other office bearers of the council, the CEC Ladakh blamed that the basic purpose of the Sagheer Ahmed report was to fulfill the agenda of Kashmir-centric leadership. “People of Ladakh region would not tolerate the dominance of people of Kashmir and would fight against it with tool and nail,” he cautioned.
Demanding UT status for Ladakh, Dorje alleged that the report has given mandate to the people of Kashmir Valley to decide the fate of Jammu and Ladakh regions, while demand of UT status of LUTF has not found any mention in the report
“We condemn the report as being biased as it doesn’t reflect the aspirations of the people of Ladakh and we reiterate that people of Ladakh would not accept the report,” he said, adding that people of Ladakh want to live with India State and to have direct relations with people of the country. “Time has come to end the domination of Kashmir on other parts of the state”, Dorje maintained.
He hoped that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would reject the report and give due consideration to the demand of people of Ladakh for separate UT for the region.
Besides, Chering Dorje, working president LUTF, Sonam Dawa Lonpo, vice-president of Hill Development Council Sheikh Saif-Ud-Din, and Stanzin Mentok, president Ladakh Students Union, Delhi also addressed the media.
In his address, Stanzin Mentok said that the youth of Ladakh are feeling suppressed and if Union Government continues to ignore their aspirations, they are ready to fight to get what was denied to them for last six decades.
The working president LUTF claimed that the people of Ladakh have foiled the ill-designs of two neighbouring countries by valiantly rallying behind the Army in each war imposed on them and the government should force them to restore to violent means for getting their rights.
The leaders disclosed that the activists of LUTF would stage a protest in front of Raj Bhawan in Jammu on January 7, to show their resentment against the “biased” report and demanding Union Territory status for the region.
The leaders also that the LUTF had also staged dharnas at Indhera Chowk in Leh and Jantar Mantar New Delhi for three days from December 21 to December 23, 2009 in view of the ongoing process for the creation of a separate Telangana state as well as the initiatives currently in place for resolution of the Kashmir issue.
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