Modi-Mehbooba ‘positive’ talks give fillip to Kashmir government formation

A new government in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be in place, as early as the next week, after PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s “positive” meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday. “Hopefully, the (new) government should be in place by March 29,” a senior Peoples Democratic Party leader and former minister Nayeem Akhtar said in Jammu as Mehbooba met the prime minister at his official 7 Race Course residence here. Jammu and Kashmir has been without an elected government after the death of chief minister Mufti Mohammad…

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