New Delhi: Representatives of the Ladakh civil society have submitted a list of “non-negotiable points” to the Union government including the demand for a Ladakh legislative assembly headed by a chief minister and a council of ministers, reported The Hindu.The list was submitted on Wednesday (August 19) by the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) to Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) officials and Ladakh Chief Secretary (CS) Ashish Kundra during an informal meeting in Leh. A formal meeting is set to take place in September this year.Another demand of the groups is that the lieutenant governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh “should act on the aid and advice of the Assembly in order to prevent conflicts as seen in some UTs.”The civil society bodies added that the Ladakh legislative assembly must have “meaningful and constitutionally protected control over taxation, Budget, appropriation, expenditure, borrowing and public funds, including a constitutionally protected Consolidated Fund and Contingency Fund”.“The U.T.-level elected Legislature must be directly elected, constitutionally empowered,” said the groups.LAB president Chering Dorjay Lakrook said on Wednesday that the points put forth in the informal meeting are “non-negotiable.”He also questioned the composition of the members who are speaking to the MHA’s high-powered committee.“Members who are not part of the earlier list of the MHA are attending these meetings. If they join the formal meetings as observers it’s fine but they put forth point only government version during the meetings,” said Lakrook.Last month, both the LAB and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) had alleged that the Ladakh administration’s decision to create Autonomous Hill Development Councils (AHDCs) in each of the Union Territory’s seven districts is aimed at diluting the powers of the proposed representative government for Ladakh under Article 371.