Srinagar, Sep 25: People’s Conference president and MLA Handwara Sajad Lone on Thursday said he was pained to see lives lost in Ladakh, adding that “Ladakh always took an undue advantage while being part of erstwhile J&K state.”

Taking to X, Lone wrote, “I am pained at the death of four people in Ladakh. May they rest in peace. Having said that. Time to call a spade a spade. I have to say that the Kashmiri people were reviled and slandered by the people of Ladakh for 70 years. I was the happiest when they were separated from us and a UT was carved for them. I was more happy for us than them. A very very senior leader who I respect a lot and was jailed with me in SKICC in 2019 will bear testimony; I told him in jail in 2019.”

Lone said “I am happy. I told him. They would take away our job

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