On April 4, 2016, after three months of Governor's rule in the ever-volatile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti was sworn in as its thirteenth Chief Minister. Her appointment to the said position also happens to make her the first woman Chief Minister ever seen by the state. She is heading the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition and carrying forward the Agenda of Alliance (AoA), which is a governance agreement between the two coalition partners. Her success as a leader of this conflictual state, where governance tasks are intertwined with identity issues, will at a minimum depend upon how she is able to get the Modi government to deliver on the items outlined in the Agenda of Alliance. Beyond that she needs to balance the demands of three regions (Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh) and reduce the public space presently being occupied by the Hindu fundamentalists in Jammu and the separatists in the Kashmir Valley.
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