Jammu: The core group of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met in Jammu on Wednesday over the issue of government formation in the state.
According to sources, the agenda of the meeting was allocation of portfolios in the government which is an alliance between the BJP and the PDP.
The BJP has sought equal number of portfolios as the PDP. In the earlier Cabinet, the PDP had 11 portfolios while the BJP had seven.
Mehbooba Mufti is likely to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on April 4.
Mehbooba, who will also have the distinction of being the first Muslim woman chief minister of the country, had met Governor NN Vohra on Saturday and staked claim to form the government with the support of 25 MLAs of the BJP. The PDP has 27 MLAs in the 87-member state Assembly.
On Saturday, Mehbooba had denied there were any differences on the issue of allocation of portfolios between PDP and BJP, saying "What differences would we have on portfolios? It is a coalition government, we are not separate entities."
(With PTI Inputs)
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