Leh, June 10 -- Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government put a special emphasis on the development of the Ladakh in the past 11 years at the Centre adding that Congress completely ignored the interests of the region and gave it a "stepmotherly" treatment.

Addressing a press conference in Leh, the BJP leader also mentioned that the BJP fulfilled several demands that remained "ignored" under the Congress tenure.

"What was considered impossible to achieve under previous governments has been achieved by the Modi government in this 11-year tenure. For 70 years, Ladakh has been demanding the status of a Union Territory. The Nehru-Gandhi family was in power for 70 years, b...