I know liberals love to romanticize Sonam Wangchuk as this saintly eco-warrior fighting for Ladakh, but honestly, the collective amnesia in progressive circles is exhausting. If you look at his actual political history through a proper class lens, he is the textbook definition of a technocratic bourgeois reformer who happily fed into right-wing majoritarianism when it served his clout.

Let us stop pretending his entire brand isn't rooted in a massive savior complex. For years, Wangchuk has acted like he alone possesses the enlightened tech-bro wisdom needed to "fix" education and ecology. It is top down, elite driven green capitalism at its finest. He treats systemic oppression like a simple bug instead of addressing the actual brutal realities of class exploitation and imperialist state control.

And let us def talk about his shameless alignment with Hindutva rhetoric. When the state was whipping up anti-China hysteria, who was out there feeding right into the jingoistic boycott campaigns? Wangchuk. He used his platform to champion hypernationalism and border militarization, giving a progressive cover to the exact same majoritarian security apparatus that oppresses working people across the region. He catered directly to mainstream right wing sentiments as long as he thought he would get a seat at the table.

Now that the contradictions of the capitalist state have caught up with him, liberals expect us to treat him like a martyr. Bhai, you do not get to flirt with reactionary politics, push state backed nationalism, act superior to real grassroots organizers, and then cry fascism when the same authoritarian machinery turns on you.

Radical solidarity belongs to the working class of Ladakh, not to elite technocrats who only realize the state is toxic when it hits their own doorstep.