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Leh crisis: BJP initiates talks to pacify five councillors


Date:- 05 Jan 2019


Arteev Sharma

A day after five elected councillors of the BJP in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, resigned from the party, suspense continued over the legitimacy of the existing council, led by the saffron party. With the resignation of its five councillors, the BJP has lost simple majority in the 30-member House.

On the back foot, the state BJP rushed its senior leader from Ladakh and MLC Chering Dorjey to placate the councillors. The party has also decided to send a team of senior leaders from Jammu to salvage the council’s collapse in the wake of its (BJP) dwindling popularity in Ladakh.

“Chering Dorjey held an informal meeting with the five dissenting councillors in Leh on Friday. The councillors vent their anger against the state leadership, which according to them, has intentionally marginalised their supreme leader and BJP’s face in Ladakh Thupstan Chhewang, who had resigned from the party and Lok Sabha on November 14 last year,” sources in the BJP said

Sources said Dorjey would hold another meeting with the councillors on Saturday and convey their concerns to the party leadership.

“The BJP will also send a team of senior leaders to mollify them to save the dissolution of the council which lost its majority with the resignation of the five councillors,” sources added.

One of the dissenting councillors, who declined to be named, said: “We will wait for the outcome of the meetings with the BJP leadership and if something concrete does not come out, we may approach the Deputy Commissioner, Leh, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Leh council, with a no-confidence motion for the dissolution of the House.” “We are closely watching the strategy of the opposition parties as they may also move a no-confidence motion (for the dissolution of the council),” the councillor said.

State BJP president Ravinder Raina said he had deputed MLC Chering Dorjey for holding discussions with the five councillors. “We will listen to their concerns and settle the issue soon,” Raina said, adding “a team of senior leaders from Jammu would also visit Ladakh to resolve the issue”.

On Thursday, five BJP councillors -- Dorjey Motup, former Chief Executive Councillor, Tsering Wangdus, Tsering Morup, Tashi Namgial and Konchak Stanzin -- quit the BJP.

In their resignation letter, the councillors said they had resigned from the party over the recent “unfortunate political developments in the party, including the resignation of Thupstan Chhewang, the unceremonious removal of Dorjey Motup from the post of the Chief Executive Councillor and no representation to the Changthang area in executive council.

Leader writes to Shah, to boycott national meet

Jammu: The BJP faced another jolt in Ladakh when its state vice-president and former district president of Leh Tsewang Gonbo shot off a letter to national president Amit Shah announcing to boycott the upcoming BJP National Council meeting scheduled to be held at Delhi on January 11 and 12. In his letter written to the BJP chief on Thursday, Gonbo said: “The prevailing unprecedented political mess caused by unnecessary interference of the state leadership in Leh district coupled by severe mishandling of the situation by accidental local leadership jeopardised the party structure here.” TNS

Divisional set-up should not undermine LAHDCs: Jora

Jammu: Former minister and senior Congress leader Nawang Rigzin Jora has urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to ensure that the proposed divisional status to Ladakh does not undermine the autonomy of two hill development councils in the region.  Jora, who met Adviser K Vijay Kumar (in charge of the Ladakh affairs department) and the Chief Secretary recently, made some important recommendations to the state administration based on his 10 years of experience in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) and 12 years in the state Cabinet. “The sole objective is to get a divisional status which is fully compatible with the two LAHDCs,” said Jora while sharing the copy of recommendations made to the Governor. In his recommendations, the senior Congress leader, who was also involved in the drafting of the LAHDC Act, said, “Giving divisional status by mere posting of a divisional commissioner and an Inspector General of Police will be meaningless if it is not accompanied by the creation of posts of directors for all important departments.” TNS

Courtesy:The Tribune,Jan05,2019