Administrative change
Reconstitution of Ladakh as a Union Territory, 2019
Ladakh became a legislature-less Union Territory following the abrogation of Article 370, triggering the statehood movement.
What happened
Following the August 2019 abrogation of Article 370, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act reconstituted Ladakh as a Union Territory without a legislature, effective 31 October 2019, placing it under a Lieutenant Governor.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: In August 2019, following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the Indian Parliament passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, reconstituting Ladakh as a Union Territory without its own legislature, separate from Jammu and Kashmir; the change took effect on 31 October 2019, placing the territory under a Lieutenant Governor rather than an elected assembly and reducing the administrative autonomy previously held by its autonomous district councils.
- Ladakh protests (Wikipedia) link, 2019 Reorganization section. Source record