Mehbooba Mufti(56)took oath as the 13th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Governor N.N. Vohra administered oath of office. 22 ministers, including BJP's Nirmal Singh, also took oath. 56-year-old Mehbooba, who took oath in Urdu, is the 13th chief minister of the state. Mufti succeeds her father Mufti Mohammad Saeed who died in January 2016
Nirmal Singh would be the deputy chief minister, the same post he held in the previous government headed by Sayeed.
16 Cabinet rank minister who took oath are Abdul Rehman Bhat Veeri, Ghulam Nabi Lone, Abdul Haq Khan, Syed Basharat Bukhari, Haseeb A. Drabu, Chauhary Zulfikar Ali, Syed Naeem Akhtar and Molvi Imran Raza Ansari from PDP and BJP’s Nirmal Singh, Chander Prakash, Bali Bhagat, Chaudhary Lal Singh, Sajad Gani Lone, Shayam Lal Chaudhary and Abdul Gani Kohli.
Other ministers of state are Asiya Naqash, Syed Farooq Ahmed Andrabi and Zahoor Ahmed Mir from PDP and Sunil Kumar Sharma, Priya Sethi and Ajay Nanda from BJP.
PDP’s Syed Altaf Bukhari and Javed Mustafa Mir, who served as cabinet ministers in the previous PDP-BJP government, have been dropped from the list for their ‘dissident’ activities and ‘poor performance’.
There is likely to be no change in the portfolios worked out by the two parties in 2015. Under the agreement, portfolios like home, finance, revenue, law and justice and education will remain with the PDP while BJP will keep health, urban development, power, commerce and industries and public health engineering.
Mehhooba Mufti would be the first woman chief minister of the country's only Muslim majority state, heading an alliance of the regional Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the centrist, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
About Mehbooba Mufti
eldest of four siblings - two sisters and one brother - Mehbooba has two daughters, Illtija Iqbal and Irtiqa Iqbal.
fought her first elections from the ancestral Bijbehara (Anantnag) assembly constituency in 1996. She fought another assembly election in 2002 from the Wachi (Shopian) constituency and her first Lok Sabha election from south Kashmir's Anantnag constituency in 2004
again stood for the Lok Sabha and won from the same constituency in 2014
has never lost an election in her 20-year political career.
was instrumental in resurrecting her late father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed's political career when he formed the PDP and decided to challenge the well-entrenched regional National Conference (NC) on its own turf.
Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu and Jitdendra Singh were present for the oath ceremony, which was also attended by former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah. Mufti’s mother Gulshan Ara Nazir, daughters Iltija and Irtiqa and siblings Tassaduq Sayeed, Mahmooda Sayeed and Rubaiya Sayeed were also present.
Mehbooba Mufti,who is PDP Lok Sabha MP from Anantnag seat, has six months in which she will have to contest election and win as an MLA or MLC.
Mehbooba Mufti is likely to contest from the Anantnag Assembly seat, which fell vacant after the death of her father
About BJP's Nirmal Singh
Nirmal Singh(60) has contested several Lok Sabha and state assembly elections over the past 25 years but had to wait till 2014 for his maiden victory.
Nirmal Singh won his first Assembly election last year from Billawar constituency in Kathua district by defeating sitting Congress MLA Manohar Lal Sharma by a margin of nearly 18,000 votes.
Nirmal Singh's father was part of the security cordon of the then Maharaja of the state.
A professor of history at Jammu University, Mr Singh hails from Karanwara-Sabar area of Basohli tehsil in Kathua.
He did his PhD in history from Jammu University in 1988 and was serving as a professor of history in the varsity before his election to the assembly.
A longtime RSS supporter, the BJP leader is considered the main force behind the rise of party in Jammu region of the state over the years. has contested several Lok Sabha and state assembly elections over the past 25 years but had to wait till 2014 for his maiden victory.
A longtime RSS supporter, the BJP leader is considered the main force behind the rise of party in Jammu region of the state over the years.
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