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| Swearing in today, Sonia to attend | | Rather, Slathia, Tara, Taj, Rigzin may take oath with Omar | | Aslam is Congress LP leader
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 4: National Conference President Omar Abdullah will take oath of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow afternoon after he was formally invited by the Governor NN Vohra to form the government.
The Governor invited Omar after he staked claim for forming government here this evening. The minor partner in the coalition, the Congress has also presented the letter of support to the Governor.
Besides the Chief Minister, five other Ministers –three from Congress and two from the National Conference will take oath Monday afternoon. The swearing-in ceremony is being held at the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium of the University of Jammu at 2PM.
Upon his arrival from Srinagar here earlier in the day, Omar Abdullah was elected by the National Conference legislators as leader of their legislature party leader. The coalition partner Congress has elected Choudhary Mohammad Aslam as its Legislative Party leader but he is unlikely to take oath as a Minister tomorrow.
An official spokesman said that the “Governor today invited Omar Abdullah, leader of the National Conference Legislature Party in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, to form the next Government in the State”. This, he said, follows Abdullah's staking the claim to form the Government at a meeting with the Governor, held this evening at Raj Bhavan.
Abdullah arrived in Raj Bhavan along with Abdul Rahim Rather, Mr Surjit Singh Slathia and Mr Nasir Sogami, to formally stake the claim of his Party to form the Government.
Earlier, the President of the Pradesh Congress Committee, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, accompanied by Choudhry Mohammed Aslam, who was elected as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party earlier in the evening, called on the Governor and pledged the support of his party to Mr Omar Abdullah.
According to a Raj Bhavan Spokesperson, the swearing-in-ceremony of the new Chief Minister will take place tomorrow, the 5th of January 2000, at 2 PM at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium, in the University of Jammu.
Omar(38) will become the state's youngest chief minister and the eleventh after he was unanimously elected as the leader of the NC Legislature party at its meeting. Omar's name was proposed by his father and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and seconded unanimously by the remaining 25 legislators.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will attend Omar's swearing-in ceremony to be held at General Zorawar Singh stadium in Jammu university. Abdullah's proposed six-member ministry is expected to have three members each from the two coalition partners who have joined hands to stitch an alliance after a gap of two decades.
"I am confident to deliver in the state and come up to the expectation of the people of the state", said Omar who got a rapturous welcome on reaching the border state's winter capital on Sunday.
Besides Abdullah, his party colleagues-- A R Rather and Surjeet Salathia-- are also expected to take oath. Tara Chand (Jammu region), Taj Mohideen (Kashmir valley) and Nawang Rigzin Jora (Ladakh) are Congress' front-runners for a berth in the ministry.
Congress sources said a deputy chief minister who will be from the party is unlikely to be inducted on Monday. The induction is likely to be done after Lok Sabha elections.
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