Violence broke out in Leh on September 24 as protesters set fire to the Bharatiya Janata Party office and a CRPF van in the capital of Ladakh. At least four people were killed in the violence and a curfew was imposed in Leh, the largest town and administrative centre of Ladakh.

Before Wednesday’s violence, the protests, through hunger strikes, were being held peacefully for last two weeks. Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who led the protests with a hunger strike, condemned the violence and said it was an "outburst of the young generation that brought them onto the streets.”

The Union government blamed Wangchuk for “misleading the people through provocative mention of Arab Spring-style protest and references to Gen Z protests in Nepal”. The award-winning environmentalist, however, said i

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