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SRINAGAR: Environmentalist and Leh Apex Body (LAB) subordinate Sonam Wangchuk met Union location curate Amit Shah successful Leh on with a clutch of different leaders from the Union territory precocious Thursday, with the enactment mostly focused connected Buddha and spirituality.Shah was connected a two-day Ladakh sojourn to be an planetary exposition of Buddha’s beatified relics. He urged the leaders “to support religion successful Lord Buddha” and said “everything volition beryllium alright”.“The gathering was called by the location minister. During the interaction, helium said Ladakh-related issues would beryllium discussed connected May 22 successful a (MHA) sub-committee meeting. He said his existent sojourn is purely spiritual and that helium is present to wage obeisance to Buddha relics,” erstwhile Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) main enforcement Gyalson told TOI.
He was among those who met Shah. The others were LAB co-chairman Tsering Dorje Lakrook and Ladakh MP Mohmad Haneefa.Gyalson said Shah asked them to attack the May 22 gathering with “an unfastened mind” and a willingness to find a mediate path. “If we scope a consensus, it volition beryllium taken up successful item and concluded successful a high-powered committee gathering later,” Gyalson added.According to Lakrook, they had raised respective demands during the 30-minute meeting, including urging Shah to seat a high-powered committee of the MHA connected the talks.
Lakrook disclosed that the location curate declined, saying helium was presently connected a spiritual journey.Lakrook said they had besides requested an upgrade of the May 22 talks from the sub-committee level to a high-powered meeting. MP Haneefa quoted Shah arsenic saying if the talks determination forward, they would beryllium followed by a high-powered meeting.The Leh gathering with Shah came implicit 7 months aft 4 radical were killed and implicit 80 injured successful alleged constabulary firing connected protesters successful Leh demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule safeguards connected Sept 24, 2025.
Wangchuk was accused of inciting the protesters done speeches. He was arrested and charged nether National Security Act (NSA) and kept successful Jodhpur jail.The Centre revoked Wangchuk’s NSA detention successful March this twelvemonth and affirmed the Centre’s committedness to “constructive engagement and dialogue” to resoluteness the region’s issues. After his release, Wangchuk has pressed for specified talks, saying Ladakh “hangs betwixt spot and mistrust”.The archetypal circular of talks betwixt the MHA sheet and Ladakhi representatives was held successful Delhi connected Oct 22 past twelvemonth aft the Centre ordered a judicial enquiry into the alleged firing. Another circular of talks took spot connected Feb 4 but remained “inconclusive”.
