Leh Ladakh Protest News: Protests demanding statehood and the Sixth Schedule for Ladakh turned violent on Wednesday as protesters set a BJP office on fire and police fired teargas shells to disperse them.

Violent protests erupted after student and youth organisations called for a shutdown in Leh. The shutdown call was announced as two elderly people, on a hunger strike to press for their demands, fainted on Tuesday and had to be shifted to the hospital.

“An elderly woman and a man fainted yesterday. The news spread fast, and students called for a shutdown today (Wednesday),” Congress leader Tsering Namgyal told The Indian Express . “This morning, a large number of people moved towards the anshan (hunger strike) site. The youth went out of control.”

Namgyal said that there were a larg

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