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Key departments, including Home, to remain under CM’s control

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will be heading key departments in Jammu and Kashmir, including Home, Planning and Tourism. On Monday, after being sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of J&K, Mehbooba assigned portfolios to 16 ministers in her cabinet. Six ministers of state were also assigned the charges. The departments under Mehbooba include Home, Tourism, Planning, General Administration, Information, Hospitality and Protocol, Civil Aviation, Horticulture, Ladakh Affairs, and Tribal Affairs. Earlier during the day, Mehbooba withdrew charge of the Tribal Affairs Department from ChoudharyZulfikar Ali. The Mehbooba-led cabinet was…

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PM reassured support in mitigating people’s suffering: Mehbooba

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Asks ministers to throw open doors for people Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday urged his ministers to throw open their doors for people and told public if they fail to redress their grievances, they should register complaint against the ministers with the CM’s office. Addressing a gathering of people at the Chief Minister’s residence at Wazarat Road in Jammu, Mehbooba in presence of her senior cabinet colleagues Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar and Minister for IT, Youth Services and Sports, and Technical Education, Imran Raza Ansari told…

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BJP extends olive branch to PDP

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‘Art 35-A, beef and State flag issues trivial, shouldn’t be raised’ The rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday extended an olive branch to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) promising no one should raise issues that disturb peace in the State. Talking to us in his civil secretariat chambers in Jammu, senior BJP leader Chaudhary Lal Singh termed the issues like revocation of Article 35-A, which ensures a special status to Jammu Kashmir, consumption of beef and unfurling of State’s flag raised by rightwing parties during the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP government as…

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Mehbooba needs to come clean on her meeting with PM: Omar

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National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today said the people of Jammu and Kashmir had the right to know what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had got from New Delhi that prompted it to form the government with the BJP after three months of bargaining and theatrical posturing. “Mehbooba Mufti needs to come clean on her meeting with the Prime Minister and what transpired between the two over the so-called confidence-building measures that the PDP claimed to have sought from the Central government,” Omar said while addressing a workers’ rally…

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87 Day Guv rule in J&K ends

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Governor NN Vohra today issued a proclamation to revoke the proclamation issued on January 9 to enforce Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir following the swearing-in ceremony of the PDP-BJP alliance this morning. With the fresh proclamation, the Governor’s rule in the state comes to an end after 87 days. The Governor’s rule was imposed on January 8 following the death of then CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. The latter proclamation was issued in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor under Section 92 of the Constitution of Jammu and…

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Karra boycotts Swearing-In, Congress says ‘unholy’ alliance

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Even as the nearly three-month stalemate on government formation has come to an end, the ruling party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is mired in fresh controversy with Member of Parliament Tariq Karra questioning the induction of some senior leaders in the Council of Ministers by Mehbooba Mufti. Karra boycotted the oath-taking ceremony and has sought removal of three senior leaders Haseeb Drabu, Altaf Bukhari and Naeem Akhtar. He blamed them for being in the “forefront” of a “coup” against Mehbooba Mufti when the latter was negotiating the re-alliance with the…

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Mehbooba Drops Four Party Ministers, 22 Ministers took oath in five languages

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Taking everybody by surprise, PDP chief Mehoboba Mufti, who took over as first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, dropped four party ministers including a senior leader. Mehbooba dropped Altaf Bukhari and Javed Mustafa Mir, who were cabinet ministers in late Mufti Sayeed’s 10 month long government. Both are senior leaders. Bukhari is party treasurer and represents Amira Kadal constituency in Assembly while Javed Mustafa Mir represents Chadoora constituency. He won three elections in a row from Chadoora. Besides, Mehbooba also dropped two former MoS in Mufti-Sayeed’s…

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BJP-PDP Alliance will take JK to ‘Newer Heights’ : Amit Shah

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BJP chief Amit Shah today asserted that the party’s alliance government with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir will take the state to “newer heights”. “Congratulations to CM Mehbooba Mufti and Deputy CM Nirmal Singh. I am sure the BJP-PDP alliance will take state to newer heights,” he said in a tweet soon after the PDP leader took oath as the first woman chief minister of the state. Finance Minister and senior party leader Arun Jaitley also congratulated Ms Mufti. “Congratulations Mehbooba Mufti ji on being sworn in as the first…

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PDP, BJP to axe important faces in Mehbooba Govt?

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As officials at the Jammu and Kashmir Raj Bhavan and the civil secretariat skipped their Sunday holiday to address protocol and legal issues related to Monday’s swearing-in of an elected government, intense speculation did the rounds on who will get a berth or will be axed in new council of ministers. Governor N.N. Vohra formally invited Mehbooba Mufti, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, on Saturday evening to be sworn-in as the new chief minister of the state on Monday. Initial reports about the composition of the council of ministers…

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No word yet on who made it to new council of ministers

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As PDP president Mehbooba Mufti prepares to take charge tomorrow as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, there is no word yet on who all made it to the council of ministers. “We are all in Jammu for the swearing-in ceremony but we have not been informed yet as to who all are going to be included in the council of ministers tomorrow. At least I have not been informed yet,” an influential PDP leader and a former minister told . He said the PDP president has…

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