Srinagar, October 06, 2021 (PPI-OT):Two years after hailing the BJP-led fascist Indian government’s illegal and unilateral move to rescind the special status of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, member of the Indian parliament from Ladakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal raised concern over the growing political anguish in the region.
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who belongs to the BJP, lost his cool after spotting missing name of his Executive Councillor for Minority Affairs, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, Ghulam Mehdi, on the plaque of a road inauguration in Leh, recently. Namgyal is the Chief Executive Councillor of LAHDC. Mehdi represents BJP in LAHDC from Tartuk area.
“This is an insult,” Namgayal lashed out at the authorities, adding, “The culprit should be punished. How come the names of those persons who don’t represent this area are on the plaque, while those who represent this area were skipped?”
Namgyal said, all the government agencies including CID, IB and RAW present here must send this message to Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister that people are being insulted in Ladakh. “We’re elected representatives. People have chosen us. We don’t come from the backdoor entry. I will not stay silent on this,” he said.
Interestingly, this is the second time within a week when political names of the ruling party were found missing on the plaques. Earlier on September 25, when Indian minister Anurag Thakur inaugurated high power transmitters at one of the Radio Stations at Humbatingla in Kargil, Feroz Ahmed Khan’s name was reportedly missing on the plaque. Notably, Khan, who is chief executive of LAHDC, Kargil, was accompanying Thakur throughout his Kargil visit.
Politicians and political pundits from the Ladakh have termed the outburst from a public representative of the ruling party a growing realisation of political erosion in the region since August 2019. Already, the same concern has been time and again raised by the Kargil political leadership.
In this regard, Sajad Hussain Kargili, prominent political leader from Kargil, in a media interview, said, “The level of frustration is such that they [BJP leaders] are now fighting for a missing name on a plaque when they should’ve fought when all their political rights were taken. Beating the chest for small things won’t work now”.
Kargili added, “There’s no value of an elected representative under a bureaucratic rule. And this speech of the Ladakh public representative clearly shows they’re desperate for credit politics.”
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