Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 19: Ladakh Muslim Coordination Committee (LMCC), Leh on behalf of the Minority Community of Leh ladakh has submitted a memorandum of demands to Governor Satya Pal Malik.
This was disclosed today by leaders of LMCC including president of Anjuman-e-Moinul Islam, Leh, Dr Abdul Qayoom, president of Imamia Leh, Ashraf Ali Barcha and representative of Noor Bakhshia, Leh, Ghulam Hussain, while addressing a press conference at Press Club, Jammu.
Highlighting the demand of delimitation/reorganization of the Council seats in Leh, Dr Abdul Qayoom said since long various sections of the societies from Leh district have been requesting for reorganization and enhancement of the Council seats from 30 to 32 and proportionate increase in the number of Executive Councillors for ensuring better representation and management specially to ethnic and religious minorities of district Leh.
He said in this regard a formal proposal during the regime of ex-Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad was floated and it was almost at culmination of logical solution by increasing the seats by virtue of re-organization, but it seems that the fate of the proposal is hanging somewhere for the accord of necessary approval. He urged the Governor to give accord to the proposal at the earliest.
Ashraf Ali Barcha demanded that the seats in the State Legislative Council be reserved for the religious minorities of Kargil and Leh i.e. Buddhists and Muslims, respectively so that they are represented suitably at the State level.
Ghulam Hussain said that a large number of inhabitants of Leh district specially sick and elderly migrate to Jammu during winter season and death being a natural phenomenon some of them die at Jammu every year and it is very cumbersome for the families of deceased to take the dead bodies to far off areas like Leh. So, it is requested to the authorities to earmark a suitable piece of land out of the State land or JDA land for the purpose of a graveyard so that families of the deceased are not subjected to any hardship for performing the last rites of their loved ones.
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