Breaking: Amidst strike, MoS Home calls Apex Body, KDA for meeting

KARGIL, AUGUST 28, 2021: As Ladakh has gone on complete strike against scheduled “selective” meeting of PSC and MoS Home with different stakeholders separately, the MoS Niti Anand Rai has called the Apex Body and KDA for a meeting today at Leh, said reliable sources.

The leaders of KDA including Co-Chairman KDA Asgar Ali Karbalai, Co-Chairman KDA Qambar Ali Akhone, District President National Conference Haji Hanifa Jan, District President INC Nasir Hussain Munshi, ISK Representative Sajja...

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In solidarity with Apex Body, KDA calls for complete shutdown in Kargil

KARGIL, AUGUST 27, 2021: Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) in a joint emergency meeting of different stakeholders in Kargil appealed for complete shutdown on Saturday against the Centre government’s call to separate stakeholders for meeting. The KDA also appealed all stakeholders and individuals to boycott the meeting tomorrow with Parliamentary Standing Committee in Leh.

Co-Chairman KDA Asgar Karbalai addressing a press conference after the emergency meeting said that the Parliamentary St...

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Apex Body, KDA agree on four-point agenda

Leh, August 1, 2021: Apex body Leh and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) after the second round of meeting today at Leh reached to consensus on four points, tweeted Councillor Sayyed Mohammad Shah, who was part of the meeting.

Prominent leaders from both the districts representing different political, religious and student groups participated in the meeting. Pertinently, former MP and President Ladakh Buddhist Association Chupstan Chewang, former MLA and Co-Chairman KDA Asgar Ali Karbalai, for...

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Public Reactions: Ladakh after Becoming a Union Territory

Mutasif Hussain (Leh)

Asst. Prof. (History), Indraprastha College for Women, DU

I can understand, Covid has distracted Ladakh from a wide-ranging experience of a Union Territory. At a glance, Ladakh appears more of a bureaucratic state than a modern democracy. Constitutionalism abhors the creation of Power Corridors, one must be reminded. A single MP at the helm, however efficient is not an adequate political office for the entire UT, the lockdown evacuations, the deadlock over unemplo...

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Apex Body Leh calls on LG Ladakh

Leh/ Feb 01: A delegation comprising the members of the “Apex Body of Peoples Movement for Sixth Schedule for Ladakh” met Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur, today.

The delegation comprising Thupstan Tsewang, Tsering Dorjey Lakruk, Ashraf Ali Barcha and Noor Mohd appreciated the efforts taken by the UT Administration to stock essential commodities for the winters. They shared that the availability of essential commodities in the ongoing winter months has surpassed that of the past ...

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