Geetanjali Angamo, wife of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was lodged in Jodhpur jail, has held security forces responsible for the recent protests in Leh. At the same time, she has strongly refuted the allegations that have been asked to have ‘relations’ with her husband or embezzlement of money through organizations.
Angamo said that Wangchuk had been opposing the ‘most Gandhian ways’ for years, but on September 24, the ‘situation deteriorated’ due to the action of the Central Reserve Police Force, resulting in four people. However, police say that they took action in self -defense after the mob was violent and set fire to the local BJP office.
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Angamo, co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning, said that Wangchuk was arrested and sent to Jodhpur Jail on Friday under the Strict National Security Act, but he has not been shown the prevention orders.
Reacting to the statement of Ladakh UT Police Chief SD Singh Jamwal, in which it was said to investigate Wangchuk’s ‘relationship’ with Pakistan, Angmo said that her husband’s visit to Pakistan was completely professional and climate-focused.
He told the news agency PTI, ‘We attended a conference organized by the United Nations, and it was on climate change. The glacier at the top of the Himalayas will not see whether it is flowing in Pakistan or in India.
He insisted that Wangchuk had praised the Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi on the stage in the program, so it is wrong to call him anti-national.
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Wangchuk’s wife questioned him to impose a rigorous National Security Act, under which he could be detained for 12 months without any case. He said that Wangchuk is definitely ‘no threat to any public system’, and this allegation is ‘very wrong’.
Angamo also spoke on the official claims of Wangchuk’s statements as ‘inflammatory’, citing protests from Nepal and Bangladesh. He claimed that his Ladakhi words were taken out of the context and wrongly translated, and their only meaning was that ‘the revolution comes when the governments are not responsible.’
Wangchuk was doing ‘Satyagraha’ demanding the status of the sixth schedule for Ladakh and the status of full state, so that the land rights and safety of tribal areas could be ensured. After the violence incident, Wangchuk withdrew his hunger strike expressing displeasure.