Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will head a 25-member cabinet, half of it from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), sources said on Friday.
With the PDP-BJP deal sealed after ironing out differences over contentions issues like Article 370 and AFSPA, 79-year-old Mufti, who will be sworn-in as Chief Minister, met the Prime Minister on Friday, capping two-month long hard negotiations between the two parties on government formation.
According to sources, Mufti will be heading a 25-member cabinet which will have 12 BJP MLAs including the Deputy Chief Minister post.
This is the first time that BJP is in the government in the state. Mufti had a nearly one-hour long meeting with Modi during which he extended invitation to the PM for attending the swearing-in ceremony at Jammu on March 1.
Modi and Mufti were all smiles as they hugged and posed for cameras with their photographs trending on social networks within minutes. |
