A clash between Muslims and Buddhists of the Ladakh Union Territory (UT) was averted on Monday after a march by a monk towards Kargil town to set up a monastery was called off on the intervention of the administration.
Officials said the L-G administration intervened to stop the ‘peace march’ by an independent monk, Choskyong Palga Rinpoche, who started a ‘paad yatra’ earlier this month. Rinpoche was stopped at Mulbek, around 35 km away from the Kargil town, on Monday.
Rinpoche is agitating to set up a monastery in Kargil, as envisaged in an order issued in 1961. However, the move was opposed by the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), an amalgam of several religious and political parties based in Muslim-Majority Kargil.
