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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KDA delegation meet MOS G Kishan Reddy

KARGIL, JULY 01, 2021: A team of Ministry for Home Affairs met with the eleven-member delegation of Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) for the first time here in Delhi today, said KDA Co-Chairman Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai.

The meeting lasted for three hours from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm that was attended by Minister of State for Home Affairs of India G. Kishan Reddy, Home Secretary, Additional Secretary, and other officials apart from 11 members of the KDA.

All the members of the KDA openly dis...

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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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Kargil United Over Issues, Demands – KDA

Kargil/ Jan. 09/ News Desk: In the aftermath of Home minister Amit Shah meet with Apex body from district Leh, veteran leaders from district Kargil, known as the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) renewed their demands in a press conference here in Kargil.

Veteran leader and ex MLA Asgar Ali Karbalai, while addressing the conference said that the agenda of KDA is clear. “We want the Govt. to restore the status of pre 05 August 2019 J&K State. If the government is serious and sincere for dev...

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