Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ram Madhav will meet party leaders in Jammu and Kashmir here today after the party decided to back Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti for the post of Chief Minister.
The J&K Chief Minister's post is lying vacant after the death of 79-year-old Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who breathed his last on Thursday morning at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Choudhary Lal Singh had on Thursday said Mehbooba Mufti deserves to be the CM, and his party (BJP) should not be having any problem with her coronation.
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