New Delhi, Sep 24: Senior Cabinet Minister in the Omar Abdullah-led Government and tribal leader Javed Ahmed Rana expressed grave concern over the unfolding developments in Ladakh, terming the ongoing protests a “clear manifestation of the growing disconnect between the people and the institutions that are meant to represent them.”

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Rana said that the unrest in Ladakh is not an isolated expression of discontent but reflects a wider crisis of political disempowerment and exclusion across the entire region of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh.

“The replacement of elected governance with bureaucratic control strikes at the core of our constitutional democracy,” Rana said.

“The growing reliance on centralised administration cannot substitute the will or aspiratio

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