New Delhi: ‘Doston, aapko kaisa lageyga agar…‘ Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk released a video statement starting with these words on Thursday, May 28. In the late-night video, he expressed his anguish over Lieutenant-Governor of Ladakh Vinai Kumar Saxena’s post on X after their last meeting held a day earlier.“You can publish these remarks of mine in full,” Wangchuk said in the video, which is in Hindi. He said the video was in response to journalists calling him for a response to the L-G’s comments about him in the X post.He alleged that the L-G’s remarks on X were “perhaps prompted by his desire to please his masters in Delhi”, so he decided to ignore the remarks, until they began featuring widely in news reports. It was “as if I had been reprimanded during our meeting,” he said.One of the L-G’s remarks in the post was, “I cautioned Shri Wangchuk to abjure from weaving a misleading and provocative narrative, which vitiates public discourse.” According to Saxena, he said this in the context of Wangchuk comparing the situation in Ladakh with that in Manipur since 2023 as well as his remarks supportive of Cockroach Janata Party.“Democratic expression must not be taken as license for fabricating falsehoods and rabble rousing,” Saxena wrote in the post. He claimed Wangchuk had “accepted” his “error of judgement” in comparing Ladakh with Manipur. He said Wangchuk had claimed he was unsure of the origins of the Cockroach [Janata] Party and would “study the motivations of its founders and revisit his stand, if necessary.”Last week, in an interview with PTI, Wangchuk said that he had feared that Ladakh would become “another Manipur” after violence broke out in September 2025 in which four protesters were killed and dozens injured. Wangchuk had also said in the context of Cockroach Janata Party that he was “very impressed” by the “creative expression” of youngsters in the country.Here is what Wangchuk says in the first minute of the 6 minute 34 second video, translated into English:How would you feel, friends, if someone invited you to their home, served you tea as a guest, charmed you with sweet words … said you should work collaboratively. And if, in passing, they mentioned some things [you have] said, which they had concerns and worries about. And then, when [you] had left, after laughing together and shaking hands, just an hour later, you find out that they have announced to the world that they strictly warned this guest, told him off, asked them to desist from their actions… Ban jaeyga na aapkey bharosey ka falooda? (Won’t your trust turn to dust?) Something like that has happened to me.Wangchuk narrated his side of the conversation, referring to the six months he spent in prison on charges of being backed by so-called inimical forces from Pakistan, China, the billionaire George Soros’s pro-democracy foundation, and other such things.I thought during my meeting with the L-G that he was telling me the Cockroach Janata Party was “a conspiracy against India backed by Pakistan, Bangladesh, America…” because he was “new to Ladakh”, Wangchuk said in the video, adding, “I laughed to myself and thought, maybe he doesn’t know he is telling these stories to a person who faced made-up charges of ties with China, Pakistan, Soros…and was jailed under NSA.”In March, the Union government voluntarily and unexpectedly revoked charges under the National Security Act against the climate activist after he had spent close to six months in prison.In the interview with PTI, Wangchuk had said he considered himself an “honorary member” of the Cockroach Janata Party. He said the Union government, which has blocked the fledgeling outfit’s X account was “killing the messenger”.“If young people are asking about paper leaks and demanding the [education] minister’s resignation, what is wrong with it?” he said in the video. Wangchuk said he would change his view about Cockroach Janata Party, which has been backing the students since the leak of the NEET undergraduate entrance paper if the government could prove it was backed by forces inimical to India’s interests.“If even 70% of the party’s support is located in India, and the rest are in America, Europe, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, I am fine with it, because it would mean that at least in creative expression and protests, in campaigns, India has become a ‘vishwaguru’ whose ideas the world is following,” he said.“But if it is proved the party is controlled from outside India, I would stop supporting it and ask others too, but I leave it to you to prove this,” he said, addressing the L-G and the party’s founder, Abhijeet Dipke.