After meeting with Shah, leaders from Ladakh call off poll boycott

Written by Dipankar Ghose
| New Delhi |

September 28, 2020 4:32:06 am





Union Ministers Amit Shah, Kiren Rijiju and Kishan Reddy at the meet with representatives from Leh on Saturday. Twitter

The government on Sunday announced it would consider all “issues related to language, demography, ethnicity, land and jobs” for which the Ladakhi people have demanded constitutional protection.

The People’s Movement for Constitutional Safeguard, an umbrella body of the Ladakhi leadership, agreed to call off its boycott of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) elections scheduled for October 16.

The contours of a broad understanding were reached at a meeting of three senior Ladakhi leaders with…

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