Situation in Ladakh ‘extremely alarming’: Kejriwal slams BJP

AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday slammed the BJP government for “silencing the voice of Ladakh”, adding that AAP stands with the people demanding statehood.

He claimed that the BJP was “consumed by power”, and was systematically stripping states of their constitutional rights by converting them into Union Territories, and called the situation in Ladakh “alarming”.

“What is happening in Ladakh today is extremely alarming. Every true patriot should stand with the people of Ladakh. Did we take freedom from the British just so that the public would become slaves to the BJP instead of the British? Revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad sacrificed their lives for democracy so that every Indian would have the right to choose their own government,” Kejriwal wrote in a post on X.

“But today, the BJP, intoxicated by the addiction of power, is turning one state after another into a Union Territory, snatching away the rights granted by the Constitution. What are the people of Ladakh demanding? They are simply asking for their right to vote, the right to choose their government. But the BJP is suppressing their voice. Despite repeatedly promising, it is not giving them the right to vote,” he added.

Calling it “a threat to the foundation of democracy in the country”, the party urged citizens to raise their voices in solidarity with Ladakh.