JAMMU: Ending the over two-month deadlock, PDP and BJP are set to jointly call on Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra on Saturday and stake claim to form the new government that will be headed by Mehbooba Mufti who will be the first woman Chief Minister of the state.
A day after Mehbooba, 56, was unanimously elected as the PDP's legislature party leader and nominated as the party's CM candidate, 25 members of BJP met in the state's winter capital here on Saturday and elected Nirmal Singh as its leader.
Singh will again be the deputy Chief Minister in the new cabinet, a post he had held in the Mufti Mohammed Syeed's dispensation.
Sources in the know of the developments said that both PDP, which has 27 members in the 87-member Assembly and BJP will seek time from the Governor for Saturday and stake their claim to form the government.
