Mehbooba Mufti is all set to become Jammu and Kashmir's first woman chief minister, after the BJP on Friday officially agreed to form a coalition government with Mufti's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
J&K's BJP legislators on Friday unanimously agreed to a coalition government with the PDP and also came on board to support the PDP's chief ministerial candidate, the state's party president Sat Pal Sharma said.
The BJP on Friday also elected Nirmal Singh as its leader in the J&K assembly and nominated him for the deputy chief minister's post in the new PDP-BJP alliance government to be headed by Mufti.
The PDP had on Thursday unanimously elected Mufti as its legislature party leader.
The former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who headed a coalition government in J&K with the BJP, died on January 7. President's rule was imposed on the state on January 9 after a deadlock over the formation of a new government.
Nirmal Singh also served as the deputy chief minister in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP coalition that was in office for 10 months till Sayeed died on January 7.
Besides the BJP's J&K legislators, Jitendra Singh, the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office and Ram Madhav, general secretary in the party in charge of Jammu and Kashmir affairs, attended the party's legislators meet here on Friday.
Informed sources said those at the meeting were apprised by Ram Madhav about the recent developments, including the Tuesday meeting in New Delhi between PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"The BJP reiterated that no fresh conditions (by PDP) had been accepted and the alliance with the PDP will continue on the basis of the agenda of alliance signed (earlier) by the two parties," a BJP source said.
Jitendra Singh represents the Kathua-Udhampur Lok Sabha seat for the BJP in the Lok Sabha.
He informed that a BJP-PDP joint coordination committee will meet before the PDP and BJP separately meet governor NN Vohra on Friday.
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