- Rajesh Tyagi/ 27.9.2025
Leh thus echoed Kathmandu. Or putting it even more precisely, if you like that- Kathmandu knocked at the doors of Leh.
Resultant state violence has left four dead and more than 70 badly injured.
Whatever may be the immediate triggers behind these uprisings, so obvious is that whole of South Asia is simmering with unrest and mass anger is seeking vent everywhere, to burst out.
Everywhere, ruling classes have been put under a fever and fear, which they know in advance, they can hardly help. Control is slipping out of their hands and they are finding it more and more difficult to rule with old means and methods.
Everywhere, GenZ is refusing to live under old conditions and is ever ready to storm the fortresses.
Failure of peaceful protest by Sonam Wangchuk in Leh, convinced the GenZ that the deaf cannot hear and a big bang was necessary to break the skulls.
Ensuing anger spilled over in streets and it took mimutes only for the order to melt down in complete disorder, with armed forces being chased away in streets by determined protestors and the government vehicles and buildings set ablaze.
Finding itself competely isolated and powerless in face of the public outburst, the government took its target at poor Wangchuk and arrested him under draconian National Security Act after cancelling FCRA account of his NGO.
Resultant state violence has left four dead and more than 70 badly injured.
Whatever may be the immediate triggers behind these uprisings, so obvious is that whole of South Asia is simmering with unrest and mass anger is seeking vent everywhere, to burst out.
Everywhere, ruling classes have been put under a fever and fear, which they know in advance, they can hardly help. Control is slipping out of their hands and they are finding it more and more difficult to rule with old means and methods.
Everywhere, GenZ is refusing to live under old conditions and is ever ready to storm the fortresses.
Failure of peaceful protest by Sonam Wangchuk in Leh, convinced the GenZ that the deaf cannot hear and a big bang was necessary to break the skulls.
Ensuing anger spilled over in streets and it took mimutes only for the order to melt down in complete disorder, with armed forces being chased away in streets by determined protestors and the government vehicles and buildings set ablaze.
Finding itself competely isolated and powerless in face of the public outburst, the government took its target at poor Wangchuk and arrested him under draconian National Security Act after cancelling FCRA account of his NGO.
On his part, instead of condemning the state aggression and oppression,
Wangchuk has rather condemned the rebellious action of the youth, insisting that all opposition to government must be confined to the failed measures of self pain and peaceful protest.
The bourgeois opposition has either maintained mysterious silence as ever or has spoken against 'mass violence'.
Whatever the likes of Wangchuk or the false opposition may say or think, the antagonism between the ruling elite and the working people is scaling up faster than ever.
Since the military lockdown and forced partition of the region by Modi government in 2019, into three Union Territories of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, the region has been home to fuming mass anger. Though Modi government has deployed all predatory means and tactics to brutally suppress the opposition to its policies, yet the region has continued seething with rage.
While local bourgeois parties like PDP and NC have sought political rapprochment with Modi and BJP under him and have entered into electoral alliances with them, people in the region have broadly remained hostile to them all.
Fuel is added to fire as the hindutva project, promoted and trumpeted by Modi and his government, faces belligerence in this muslim majority region.
Nevertheless, Modi government has attempted to weaponise this oppression also, to rally the hindu majority votes behind it, in rest of the country.
Albeit, in the long run, neither the political maneuvers nor the state oppression, places the ruling governments to any position of advantage, but only draws their inevitable fate nearer.
Before retreating to their grave, rulers resort to all possible repression at their disposal, with no exception. But it invites only hate and wrath of the people, finally leaving the rulers totally disarmed and defenceless in face of mass revolt.
After Colombo, Dhaka and Kathmandu, the spread of rebellion to Leh, is the surest sign of the mass unrest in South Asia.
Barometer is clearly predicting a tempest!
Sleepless must go the ruling capitalist elite!
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