Listen to this article:

Srinagar: The delay in deciding on the no-confidence motion – submitted by councillors of the INDIA bloc in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil – against the incumbent chief executive councillor (CEC) has put a spotlight on the Union Territory administration, with councillors as well as the local MP accusing it of weakening the ‘last remnants’ of democracy in the region.

The letter of no-confidence submitted on May 14 to the Deputy Commissioner, Kargil, who is also chief executive officer of the Hill Council, carries the signatures of 16 councillors to oust the incumbent CEC, Mohd Jaffar Akhoon.

“We, the undersigned elected councillors of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil, constituting not less than one-third of the total elected members of the Council and being competent under the provisions of Section 27 of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil Act, 1997, do hereby submit this formal requisition for convening a special meeting of the Council for the removal of the incumbent chairman/chief executive councillor,” reads the no-confidence motion submitted by the councillors.

The no-confidence resolution was submitted after the CEC refused to step down on completion of his two-and-a-half-year........

© The Wire