LADAKH was one of the frontiers breached by the BJP coinciding with its rise around 2014. That year’s Lok Sabha elections saw the party get its first-ever MP from Ladakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal. The developments now come on the back of a consistent slide in those hard-won gains, including the BJP’s top leadership switching sides.

Party leaders who have seen the BJP ’s fluctuating fortunes in Ladakh from close quarters express dismay, saying that not only has the party failed to “handle the situation sensitively” but also broken its promises to an electorate that had placed its faith in the BJP.

With Jammu and Kashmir, then including Ladakh, an ideological project of the Sangh Parivar, the RSS and BJP had wooed Leh away from the Congress by acknowledging its yearning for Union Territ

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