‘Good change’: Farooq Abdullah on expansion of J&K council of ministers

Ruling National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday (October 27, 2026) described the expansion of the council of ministers in Jammu and Kashmir as a good change.

Four new Ministers were sworn in on Tuesday, as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expanded his council of ministers. “A very good cabinet change has taken place. They will work and try to ease the difficulties and problems of the people,” Mr. Farooq Abdullah told reporters at the party headquarters, Nawa-i-Subah, in Srinagar.

All four new faces, Ali Mohammad Sagar, Mir Saifullah, Shamim Firdous and Altaf Ahmad Wani (Kallo), are from the Kashmir Valley.