PTI, JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today inducted her younger brother, Tassaduq Mufti, and Chadoora MLA Javaid Mustafa Mir into her cabinet. It was the second expansion of the council of ministers since Mehbooba Mufti formed the government with the BJP in April 2016. Governor N N Vohra administered the oath to the legislators at Raj Bhavan.
Tassaduq Mufti, 45, previously served as the head of Mehbooba Mufti’s grievance cell. He had returned to state politics after their father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed died in 2016.
Tassaduq Mufti is expected to get the tourism portfolio. “I will work hard for peace, progress and prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir. My focus will be to infuse life in the tourism sector in J&K,” Tassaduq Mufti told reporters here.
The BJP, a coalition partner in the ruling alliance in the state, welcomed the minor expansion of the cabinet. BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh said the expansion will give a boost to the council of ministers. The National Conference said the PDP was guided by a “singular goal” of empowering one family. NC provincial chief Nasir Aslam Wani claimed in Bandipora that the division within the PDP was never “more acute and irreconcilable”.
