JAMMU/Srinagar, Sept. 10 -- The sub-committee level talks convened by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Wednesday over Ladakh's demands for statehood and constitutional safeguards under sixth schedule of the Constitution failed to make headway, with participants from the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) calling it "very disappointing". The MHA had called the meeting at Delhi to discuss the four key demands of the LAB and KDA. The talks were considered significant by the two bodies as they anticipated some forward movement after the minutes of the May 22 meeting were signed off on July 3 in Leh by the MHA and the two agitating bodies. However, co-chairman of the LAB and former minister Chering Dorjay Lakrook said: "There was not much headway. They (MHA officials) only reiterated the May 22 minutes of the meeting and there was no forward movement". "We were anticipating a concrete draft proposal from the MHA, which had to be deliberated upon by us before giving our reaction to the government on it but nothing of this sort happened. We conveyed our disappointment to the officials in writing," he said. Dorjay said the MHA officials have assured them to hold the next meeting in Kargil during first week of October. Chief secretary of Ladakh UT, Ashish Kundra, struck a positive note after the meeting. In a post on X, he wrote, "...A general air of positivity prevailed as the broad contours of a sui generis model of governance under Article 371 of the Constitution were discussed. Deepening democracy is the goal"....