Squarely blaming Union home minister Amit Shah for last year’s Leh violence on September 24 that left four people including a retired soldier dead and over 80 injured, climate activist and leader of the Leh Apex Body (LAB), Sonam Wangchuk, on Thursday, demanded Shah’s resignation.
So, should Shah continue (in office). Since the day Amit Shah became home minister, riots have been happening everywhere. “There is no place for politics of intimidation in the country…do politics of love and humanity. I know after this speech, I may be subjected to intimidation but I call a spade a spade. I have been jailed in the past and I am ready for my encounter. “I am neither a BJP loyalist nor a Congress loyalist. The climate activist also alleged that the Ladakh administration headed by the LG has coerced people of Ladakh for abstaining themselves from Thursday’s martyrs day programme This statement is issued to clarify the actual ground situation. The Ladakh police categorically refutes these allegations. It is hereby clarified that the police did not stop any individual from proceeding to the venue or attending the event.
Addressing a gathering at NDS Stadium in Leh, where LAB and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) held a martyrs rally in memory of four men killed in police firing on this day last year, Wangchuk said, “If Congress MP Rahul Gandhi can demand resignation of Shah over use of pellet guns and lathicharge on peacefully protesting students at Jantar Mantar then what should we demand for using AK 47 on peaceful Ladakhis, who were shot on their chests and heads and killed brutally. Wangchuk claimed that since the day Amit Shah became the Union home minister of India in 2019, the nation was in ruins. “From 2014 to 2019, everything was good in the country. The administration said that during the September 24 march, the leaders in their addresses, accused the Ladakh police of installing barricades, specifically to stop the general public from attending the prayer meet.
Therefore, I say today that the Shah must resign and take responsibility for these deaths. Because experts tell me that I may face an encounter, i wish it.
He must resign,” Wangchuk said. So let it happen,” he said. He also recalled how Shah allegedly bluntly told the leaders from Ladakh at a meeting that the sixth schedule will not be given at any cost. “He (Shah) had told it on the face of the leaders that even if the PM asked him in writing to confer sixth schedule to Ladakh, he won’t do it,” said Wangchuk. Shah forced the bureaucracy to do all wrong things and unleash atrocities on the people of Ladakh,” he said.
