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The Jamiat Ul Ulama Isna Asharia Kargil (JUIAK), an influential seminary successful Ladakh’s Kargil region, connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) warned of protests if the Lieutenant Governor’s medication failed to retreat the caller excise policy.
“If liquor is allowed to beryllium sold oregon consumed openly successful Kargil, the organisation, on with the public, would beryllium compelled to motorboat antiauthoritarian and peaceful protests against the move,” said JUIAK wide caput Sheikh Ibrahim Khalili and governmental in-charge Sajjad Kargili.
The organisation called upon spiritual scholars, assemblage leaders, and societal organisations “to rise consciousness among the nationalist astir the harmful effects of drugs and liquor”.
Demanding “immediate withdrawal of the policy”, the JUIAK leaders said, “Promotion of liquor income is against the cultural, social, and spiritual values of the radical of Ladakh.”
They said liquor has nary spot successful Ladakhi nine and that opening liquor outlets nether the caller argumentation would person antagonistic consequences for the younger procreation and nine astatine large. “Introducing different intoxicating substance cannot beryllium a solution to reducing cause addiction and substance abuse,” they added.
The JUIAK is gathering the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh to taxable an authoritative practice demanding the withdrawal of the argumentation and a implicit prohibition connected liquor successful the region, said the leaders.
The medication has introduced a caller excise argumentation for the region, which volition spot an summation successful the liquor outlets from 2 to 20, adjacent successful distant pockets of Nubra, Changthang, Sham, and Zanskar.
