J&K Cabinet Reshuffle LIVE: Kavinder Gupta Sworn-In as Mehbooba Mufti's New Deputy, Replaces Nirmal Singh

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Big news right now: Kavinder Gupta, who resigned as the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker on Sunday, has been sworn-in as the new deputy CM, replacing BJP colleague Nirmal Singh. The change is part of a bigger reshuffle in the Mehbooba Mufti cabinet in the state. BJP’s state unit chief Sat Sharma, Kathua and Sambha MLAs Rajiv Jasrotia and Devinder Kumar Manyal are among the new BJP faces in the cabinet. The PDP also now has Pulwama MLA Mohd Khalil Band and Sonwar MLA Mohd Ashraf Mir as Cabinet ministers, while the BJP has upgraded Minister of State for Transport Sunil Sharma to the rank of a Cabinet minister.

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