Perform or People Will Teach a Lesson, Mehbooba Tells Ministers

Chairing her first meeting after assuming CM’s post, Mehbooba Mufti talked tough.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. (Photo: IANS)

Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti allocated portfolios to her team of ministers overnight and told the ministers to “perform or people will teach a lesson”.

Mehbooba Mufti with her Cabinet ministers. (Photo: PTI)

Chairing her first cabinet meeting late on Monday night after she took over as the first woman Chief Minister of country’s only Muslim majority state, Mufti told her ministerial colleagues: “Perform or else the people will teach you a lesson.”

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Having already lost nearly three months in re-stitching an alliance her late father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had tailored by calling it ‘the meeting of the north and the south’, Mufti settled down to administrative business immediately after being sworn in on Monday.

The Ministers

Nirmal Singh (BJP), Deputy Chief Minister has been allotted Power Development, Housing and Urban Department portfolios.

Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh takes oath at Raj Bhawan in Jammu on Monday. (Photo: PTI)      

Abdul Rehman Bhat Veeri (PDP) is the new Minister for Roads and Buildings and Parliamentary Affairs.

Abdul Rehman Bhat Veeri. (Photo: ANI)

Haseeb Drabu (PDP) gets the all-important portfolio of Finance, Planning and Culture.

Haseeb Drabu. (Photo: PTI)

Naeem Akhtar (PDP) has again been allotted the Education portfolio.

Naeem Akhtar. (Photo: ANI)

Abdul Haq (PDP) gets Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Law.

Abdul Haq takes oath on Monday. (Photo: ANI)

Syed Basharat Bukhari (PDP) has been allotted Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation. During his 10-month stint as Education Minister, Akhtar was ‘blamed’ in a lighter vein for having pushed non-performing teachers to suffer from sleep disorders.

Syed Basharat Bukhari taking oath. (Photo: ANI)

Bali Bhagat (BJP) gets Health and Medical Education.

Bali Bhagat celebrates daughters birthday with family. (Photo: Twitter)

Sajad Lone (Peoples Conference) gets the Social Welfare portfolio.

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir late Mufti Mohammad Syeed and Chief of the Peoples Conference Sajjad Gani Lone. (Photo: PTI)

Choudhary Lal Singh (BJP) gets Forests, Ecology and Environment.

Choudhary Lal Singh. (Photo: ANI)

Abdul Ghani Kohli (BJP) Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department.

Abdul Ghani Kohli. (Photo: ANI)

All other departments including General Administration, Home, Tourism and those not allotted to any other minister will be handled by the Chief Minister herself.

(With IANS inputs)