Speaker, seven others confirmed as ministers in Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu, Apr 30 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly speaker Kavinder Gupta and seven others were today confirmed as ministers in the state's PDP-BJP government drove by Mehbooba Mufti.

Gupta will be the new deputy chief serve set up of Nirmal Singh, who presented his acquiescence the previous evening, authorities said.

The reshuffle is the result of BJP ministers Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga leaving from the cabinet earlier this month after they were scrutinized for participating in a rally in help of those blamed in the assault and murder for an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.

The new BJP faces confirmed as priests were the gathering's state unit boss Satpal Sharma and the MLAs from Kathua and bordering 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 bureau serve. BJP administrator Shakti Raj took promise as a clergyman of state.

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

The BJP has dropped Nirmal Singh, Health Minister Bali Bhagat and Minister of State (MoS) for Tourism Priya Sethi.

Their resignations have been accepted alongside that of Law Minister Abdul Haq Khan by Governor N Vohra, an authority stated, including that Sunil Sharma, who was overhauled as bureau serve, additionally surrendered as MoS.

BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav and MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh went to the occasion.

The oath of office and secrecy was regulated by the governor at the tradition focus rather than the Raj Bhavan as the state government has just moved its base to summer capital Srinagar, some portion of the semiannual darbar move under which the administration capacities for a half year in Jammu and a half year in Srinagar.

The saffron party had on April 17 asked all its nine ministers in the PDP-BJP government in the state to present their acquiescences to empower getting new faces in the two-year-old Mufti cabinet.

The state can have a most extreme of 25 priests, including the central priest, out of which 14 portfolios are with the PDP and the staying with the BJP.