Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti was sworn-in as the first lady Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in presence of Governor N.N Vohra at Raj Bhawan Jammu on Monday. The 56-years old Mehbooba is a daughter of Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a founder of PDP Late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed. The coalition administration of PDP-BJP has 56 MLA’s in the 87-member Assembly along with Sajad Gani Lone of Peoples Conference. Pertinently, Peoples Democratic Party's 11 as many as BJP MLA's took oath of office and screcy at Raj Bhawan. Peoples Conference led by Sajad Gani Lone has two MLA’s while two other independent MLA’s are supporting the government.In a meantime, Syed Afrooq Andrabi, Zahoor Mir, Sham Choudhary, Ajay Nanda were included in Mehbooba’s new cabinet while as few cabinet ministers during Mufti led coalition government were dropped in newly formed alliance administration.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu,MoS in Prime Ministers Office Dr. Jitendra Singh , Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and BJP leader Ram Madhav were present during the swearing-in Ceremony of first woman CM of state. The council of Ministers of PDP-BJP’s 2nd Innings are Nirmal Singh Deputy Chief Minister, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Chandar Parkash,Ghulam Nabi Lone, Bali Bhagat, Prakash Kumar, Haq Khan, Lal Singh, SYed Basharat Bukhari, Sajad Gani Lone, Haseeb A. Drabu, Tsering Dorjee, Choudhary Zulfikar Ali, Sham Lal Choudhary, Naeem Akhtar, Abdul Gani Kohli, Imran Raza Ansari, Asiyah Naqash,Sunil Kumar Sharma, Syed Farooq Ahmad Andrabi, Priya Sethi, Zahoor Ahmad Mir and Ajay Nanda.5 Dariya News staff constitute of Bureau Chief J&K Rouf Pampori & a Correspondent J&K Yawar Shafi were invited to cover the event on behalf of 5 Dariya News.