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Mufti to take oath as J&K CM today, Modi to attend
Jammu/Srinagar, Mar 1 (IBNS): People's Democratic Party (PDP) supremo Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will take oath as the next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.
The ceremony assumes special significance as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the same.
Mufti on Friday met Modi and said there is a political alliance with the BJP.
After meeting Modi, Mufti had said it is both a political alliance with the BJP and then an alliance for governance.
Mufti said he had a fruitful discussion with Modi and it is an opportunity for both of them.
Two months after a fractured mandate stood in the way of a government coming to power, People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti and BJP president Amit Shah last Tuesday struck a deal on a Common Minimum Programme towards formation of the government in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP and the PDP had already agreed to form a coalition government pending the modalities of CMP that would help them get along.
The government will be headed by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed with the BJP's Nirmal Singh as his deputy. Their sweraing-in will take place at Jammu University's Zoravar Auditorium on March 1.
The deal reached between Mebooba Mufti and Amit Shah ended two months of negotiations between the two parties aimed at narrowing differences over various contentious issues, including the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.
The electorate of Jammu and Kashmir elected a hung Assembly in December last year with the PDP emerging as the single largest party with 28 seats in the 87-member House.
The BJP emerged as the second largest party with 25 seats followed by the National Conference at 15 and Congress with 12. Smaller parties and independents won seven seats.
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