Sonam Wangchuk and other protesters remain in detention in Delhi, hold hunger strike in police stations

The Delhi Police detained the protesters for allegedly violating prohibitory orders passed a fewer hours earlier the contingent reached Delhi’s borderline connected Monday. Members of Leh Apex Body, which organised the protest, claimed that the constabulary were astir to merchandise immoderate detainees connected Tuesday but past did not proceed with the release.

Talking to The Indian Express, Leh Apex Body co-chairperson Tsering Gorjoy said, “Sonam Wangchuk is inactive nether detention; his cellphone has been taken distant from him, truthful we tin nary longer telephone him. Meanwhile, determination are a fewer activists who are being detained astatine antithetic places, truthful they person been sitting connected a hunger onslaught from there…Our MP and CEC were besides detained aft they went to sojourn Sonam Wangchuk connected Tuesday, but they person been released. There were immoderate 25 radical from Kargil whom they (the police) were astir to merchandise yesterday (Tuesday). They took them retired successful a bus, but past they returned without releasing them.”

“Today is our 2nd time and we are connected hunger onslaught against our unconstitutional, unwarranted detention. I inquire the government—are we, the radical of Ladakh, considered traitors oregon enemies of this country? The authorities indispensable admit that the radical of Ladakh judge successful resolving issues done dialogue,” posted Sajjad Kargil, 1 of the protesters, connected X.

The march toward the superior led by Leh Apex Body began a period agone successful Ladakh. The march aims to unafraid statehood for Ladakh, widen the Constitution’s Sixth Schedule, found an aboriginal recruitment process, make a nationalist work committee for Ladakh, and unafraid abstracted Lok Sabha seats for Leh and Kargil districts. The ft march was scheduled to extremity astatine Raj Ghat connected Wednesday connected the juncture of Gandhi Jayanti.