BJP mp from Ladakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, trended on social media for his speech in parliament on the debate on the government’s move to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and split it into two union territories.

Tsering  strongly endorsed the move to turn Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh.

“If Ladakh is today underdeveloped, then Article 370 and Congress party are responsible for it,” said Tsering Namgyal, asserting that the people of Ladakh had been fighting for Union Territory status for the last seven decades.

He also said protests by parties like the National Conference of Omar Abdullah and Mehooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party should be ignored as they had treated the state as their “family business”. If the move was implemented, only two families would lose their job, he said.