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Gitanjali Angmo, the wife of education reformer and activist Sonam Wangchuk and co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh, on Tuesday alleged that “baseless narratives” were being spread against him and his institutes to project him as an “anti-national” as part of a “witch-hunt”.
Wangchuk, who has been at the forefront of the movement seeking statehood and extension of the Sixth Schedule to Ladakh, was detained under the stringent National Security Act in Leh on Friday for allegedly instigating the violent protests on September 24 that left four people dead and scores of others, including security personnel, injured.
He was later shifted to a jail in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi according to various media reports , Angmo challenged authorities to an open debate on the allegations, including those suggesting links to Pakistan, and said neither she has been able to contact Wangchuk nor has she been provided with formal documents detailing the charges against him by the administration.
“There was no need to put the NSA on Sonam Wangchuk; they are giving one-sided narratives,” Angmo claimed and asserted that she felt “almost in a house arrest” herself and decided to travel to the national capital to speak out.
