Centre betraying people of Ladakh: Sonam Wangchuk

Srinagar: Prominent climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Thursday said the BJP-led Centre is betraying the people of Ladakh and moving away from the promises it made over the past few years. Wangchuk, who was in Delhi for a scheduled meeting with the Ministry of Home Affairs along with other members of Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) and Apex Body Leh (ABL), claimed that "nobody in Delhi seemed to know about the meeting".

"It was MHA that proposed a meeting on October 22 and asked us to come to Delhi, saying it would arrange a meeting. Accordingly, we made our plans and booked tickets to Delhi for October 22. I have arrived here today (October 22) but we are now being told that nobody seems to know about the meeting," Wangchuk said.

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The ongoing dialogue between the representatives of Ladakh and MHA hit a fresh road block earlier this month when members of KDA and ABL claimed that the Centre's draft proposal "was (far) from the expectations of the people of Ladakh and what they are fighting for". They stated that the administration in Ladakh and the Centre were taking some steps "unilaterally" in the absence of "genuine representation" and the "democratic setup".

He said that at the October 15 meeting in Leh MHA backtracked on what they had achieved in May this year.