Mumbai: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk will be meeting environmentalists in Mumbai as a part of his thanks-giving tour. The Mumbai meeting will be organised by members of the Friends Of Ladakh Friends Of Nature (FOLFON) Mumbai, who supported Wangchuk in his fasts during the Ladakh Movement.

Engineer and education reformist Sonam Wangchuk, who was the inspiration behind the popular character of Phunsuk Wangdu in the movie ‘3 Idiots’, has been making headlines since last year due to his hunger strikes with demands of constitutional safeguards for Ladakh’s fragile ecosystem. He has been appealing to the government to fulfil its promise of adding Ladakh to the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and give statehood to the region.

As a symbol of support to Wangchuk during his fasts, people from all across the country had come together to form FOLFON, a movement where individuals joined hunger strikes with Wangchuk in Ladakh or from their cities to express their solidarity. People from FOLFON Mumbai had also joined in multiple hunger strikes and a few of them even joined him in Ladakh.

Wangchuk is on India tour to express his gratitude to people who supported him during his hunger strikes. After his visit to Kolkata in January, Wangchuk will be visiting Mumbai on Saturday to meet his supporters. He will interact with environmentalists at the ‘Environmental Meet’ organised at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan Hall in Dadar (E) from 4.30pm to 7.30pm.

FOLFON is also aiming to use this opportunity to unite people and organisations working on environmental causes to work together as a force to save mountains, rivers, oceans, forests and indigenous communities across India.

On this occasion, FOLFON Mumbai has also organised an art competition where people will be motivated to express their love for environment by making posters, paintings or any kind of art work. These art works will be displayed at the Environmental Meet and the best art piece will be felicitated by Wangchuk. He will also join a ‘Chipko March’ protest in Pune on Sunday to protest the felling of trees for the ambitious River Front Development project.