Overview

• The three-day fast by the Kargil Democratic Alliance and Leh Apex Body entered its second day on August 10 with Sonam Wangchuk and other leaders reiterating demands for Ladakh’s statehood, Sixth Schedule inclusion, separate Lok Sabha seats and a regional public service commission.
• The Jammu and Kashmir Congress commenced an 11-day chain hunger strike under its ‘Hamari Riyasat, Hamara Haq’ campaign in Srinagar and Jammu, with Pawan Khera and senior party figures denouncing the Centre’s failure to curb terrorism and restore elected authority.
• Both movements pointed to stalled negotiations with the Home Ministry’s High Powered Committee—only two meetings in eight months—as the trigger for renewed fasts and warnings of repeated marches to Delhi if key issues remain unaddressed.
• Protesters are deploying nonviolent pressure tactics such as relay fasts, symbolic marches and public meetings to draw attention to autonomy grievances dating back to the 2019 revocation of special status and reorganization.
• Opposition leaders have threatened extended hunger strikes of up to six weeks and multiple Delhi marches unless the government sets concrete timelines for talks on Jammu & Kashmir’s statehood restoration and Ladakh’s constitutional safeguards.