‘Govt backtracked after…’: Omar Abdullah slams BJP over Sonam Wangchuk’s arrest after Ladakh statehood clashes
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‘Govt backtracked after…’: Omar Abdullah slams BJP over Sonam Wangchuk’s arrest after Ladakh statehood clashes
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has been at the center of a political crisis since the general election in 2014. J&K is at the centre of a dispute between the BJP and the Congress over Kashmir’s status as an integral part of India. The state has been in the throes of a power struggle with the Congress for more than a year. The conflict is over the right of Kashmiris to vote for the first time in more than 50 years.
“Promises were made with the people there…I don’t understand what compulsions does the Central government have to backtrack after making promises,” Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of the third Junior Asian Pencak Silat championship in Srinagar.
Sonam Wangchuk arrested Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was arrested on Friday, two days after violent protests in Ladakh left four people dead and 90 others injured.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Home Affairs cancelled the license of the activist’s non-profit organisation ‘Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh’ (SECMOL) to receive funds from abroad under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act or FCRA, 2010.
The home ministry had blamed Wangchuk, a senior member of Leh Apex Body (LAB), which, along with Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), is spearheading the agitation in support of the demands — statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution — for the past over five years, for provocation leading to the violence.
What Omar Abdullah said The J&K chief minister said before the Hill council elections in Leh in 2020, a Union minister went there as the people there had decided to boycott the elections.
“Promises were made to make people contest and participate in the elections. Not only did the people then participate in the elections in huge numbers, but they made BJP win. But the promises were not kept, same as with us,” he said.
Referring to the promise of the restoration of J&K’s statehood after the completion of assembly elections, Abdullah said the people in the Union territory participated in the elections, and then the government was formed here based on those promises.
He asked whether the people of J&K are being kept away from statehood because they didn’t elect the BJP to power.
“If that is the case, then they should tell the court that till BJP doesn’t form the government in JK, statehood will not be restored,” he said.