Jammu & Kashmir

‘Proud RSS Man’ Kavinder Gupta swears in as JK’s news Deputy Chief Minister

Madhav says cabinet reshuffle has nothing to do with Kathua case

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly speaker Kavinder Gupta and seven others were today sworn in as ministers in the state’s PDP-BJP government led by Mehbooba Mufti.

Gupta will be the new deputy chief minister in place of Nirmal Singh, who submitted his resignation last night, officials said.

Gupta, who replaces Singh, is a first-time MLA but an old BJP and RSS hand. He has served as Jammu mayor for three terms, between 2005 and 2010.

After taking over as the speaker of the Assembly, Gupta had said that he is a ‘proud RSS man.’ 

The new BJP faces sworn in as ministers were the party’s state unit chief Satpal Sharma and the MLAs from Kathua and adjoining Sambha, Rajiv Jasrotia and Devinder Kumar Manyal, respectively.

The BJP also upgraded Sunil Sharma, at present minister of state for transport, to the rank of a cabinet minister. BJP MLA from Doda Shakti Raj took oath as a minister of state.

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The PDP members included in the cabinet were Mohd Khalil Band, MLA from Pulwama, and Mohd Ashraf Mir, MLA from Sonwar.

BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav and Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh attended the event.

Amid reports, that Nirmal Singh was replaced after he supported Mehbooba Mufti the Kathua rape and murder case, Ram Madhav said that the reshuffle has nothing to do with the Kathua incident.

 

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