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![[Ladakh Union Territory Front Flag]](../images/i/in}lutf.gif) image 
by Corentin Chamboredon, 5 April 2014
 
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by Corentin Chamboredon, 5 April 2014
Here is an Indian local political flag. I read on Wikipedia that "Ladakh 
Union Territory Front (LUTF) was a conglomerate of political parties in Jammu 
and Kashmir in India. Its basic objective was to fight for the Union Territory 
status for Ladakh. A consortium of political parties formed in 2002 decided that 
a regional party shall be formed under a single flag and carry the struggle for 
the Union territory status for Ladakh. Things changed when few of the nominated 
candidates shifted sides and joined Indian National Congress (INC). Since then a 
kind of bipartisan politics begun in Ladakh between the LUTF and the Indian 
National Congress."
I found only one photograph of the flag, here :
http://www.niticentral.com/2013/08/15/forgotten-and-neglected-ladakh-feels-alienated-119173.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladakh_Union_Territory_Front 
It is a 
horizontal bicolor flag with dark green on the lower part and dark red on the 
upper. Above and under the demarcation line there are two lines of text : "Ladakh 
Union Territory Front" above and something mostly hidden below. I think it is "Leh 
- Ladakh".
Corentin Chamboredon, 5 April 2014
I have just found out that Ladakh, Indian territory, had undergone a change 
of administrative status to become an Union territory, being separated from 
Jammu and Kashmir on 31 October 2019 (itself "demoted" from State to Union 
territory). It probably won't have any impact in flag matters.
Corentin 
Chamboredon, 23 January 2020