J&K : Mehbooba Mufti sworn in as Chief Minister 

Atlast, after a gap of almost three months Mehbooba Mufti, 56, made history as she took oath as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. At Jammu Raj Bhavan Mehbooba and 22 other ministers were sworn-in by Governor N N Vohra. Among those present were rival National Conference patron and former Union minister Farooq Abdullah, his son and former CM Omar Abdullah, Union Urban Development and Parliamentary Minister Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur and Union Minister of State in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh. BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav and vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna were also present at the swearing-in function, kept a low-key affair reportedly at the instance of Mehbooba.