Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Thursday said he was disappointed with how talks between Ladakh’s key leaders and the MHA sub-committee in New Delhi.
Taking a dig at the meeting, Wangchuk shared an old clip from popular comedian Jaspal Bhatti’s show and said that hardly anything new happened during the talks.
“There was hardly anything new beyond the last meeting four months ago… Wangchuk, in a post on X on Thursday, said leaders of the Apex Body of Leh (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) would hold a press conference at 4 pm at Ladakh Bhavan in New Delhi.
He said the leaders were “rather disappointed” by the sub-committee-level meeting held in New Delhi on September 9. No draft prepared by MHA to discuss, no response on the list of Non-negotiables Ladakh had sent a month ago, not even an assurance of not doing any major irreversible restructuring of local governance, land transfer policies etc before a legitimate democratic Assembly is in place…,” Wangchuk said. The meeting was convened by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Wednesday over Ladakh’s demands for statehood and constitutional safeguards.
“We were anticipating a concrete draft proposal from the MHA, which had to be deliberated upon by us before giving our reaction to the government on it but nothing of this sort happened.
We conveyed our disappointment to the officials in writing,” he said.
They (MHA officials) only reiterated the May 22 minutes of the meeting and there was no forward movement”.
He said the only major outcome of the meeting was “perhaps to fix the next meeting date… in October”. “This is why we’re reminded of famous comedian Jaspal Bhatti’s meetings today,” Wangchuk said, sharing a clip from Bhatti’s Flop Show. The sub-committee level talks convened by the union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Wednesday over Ladakh’s demands for statehood and constitutional safeguards under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution failed to make headway, with participants from the LAB and KDA calling it “very disappointing”. However, co-chairman of the LAB and former minister Chering Dorjay Lakrook said: “There was not much headway.
