Five NC Leaders Sworn In As Cabinet Ministers

Five National Conference leaders — Sakina Masood (Itoo), Javed Dar, Javed Rana, Surinder Choudhary, and Satish Sharma — Wednesday were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir. While Itoo and Dar are from the Kashmir valley, Rana, Choudhary and Sharma are from the Jammu region. National Conference leader Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the first elected government in the Union territory since 2019 when Article 370 was abrogated.

Omar chose party leader Surinder Choudhary from Nowshera in Jammu as his deputy..