Omar Abdullah will be sworn in as the eleventh and youngest chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday at the head of a National Conference-Congress coalition government amid indications that a six-member ministry without a deputy chief minister from the Congress would take oath with him.
Omar (38) was unanimously elected as the leader of the NC Legislature party at its meeting. Omar's name was proposed by his father and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and seconded unanimously by the remaining 25 legislators.
The swearing in ceremony, at the General Zorawar Singh stadium in Jammu University, will be attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The proposed six-member ministry is expected to have three members each from the NC and the Congress who joined hands in an alliance after a gap of two decades.
"I am confident to deliver in the state and come up to the expectation of the people of the state," said Omar who arrived to a rousing welcome in Jammu on Sunday.
Hours before the NC-Congress alliance was to be formalized, the PDP pulled out of the ruling Congress-led UPA coalition with party chief Mehbooba Mufti writing a letter to UPA chairpeson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
According to media reports NC seniors AR Rather and Surjeet Salathia are expected to take oath.
On the Congresss side Tara Chand, Taj Mohideen and Nawang Rigzin Jora are front-runners for a berth in the ministry.
Omar (38) was unanimously elected as the leader of the NC Legislature party at its meeting. Omar's name was proposed by his father and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and seconded unanimously by the remaining 25 legislators.
The swearing in ceremony, at the General Zorawar Singh stadium in Jammu University, will be attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The proposed six-member ministry is expected to have three members each from the NC and the Congress who joined hands in an alliance after a gap of two decades.
"I am confident to deliver in the state and come up to the expectation of the people of the state," said Omar who arrived to a rousing welcome in Jammu on Sunday.
Hours before the NC-Congress alliance was to be formalized, the PDP pulled out of the ruling Congress-led UPA coalition with party chief Mehbooba Mufti writing a letter to UPA chairpeson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
According to media reports NC seniors AR Rather and Surjeet Salathia are expected to take oath.
On the Congresss side Tara Chand, Taj Mohideen and Nawang Rigzin Jora are front-runners for a berth in the ministry.
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