PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti is all set to become the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Despite their ideological differences, the BJP-PDP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir would solely work for the development of the state, union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday.
"There are ideological differences between the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and PDP (Peoples Democratic Party). Despite these differences, the BJP-PDP alliance government would work for the development of J&K," Mr Singh told reporters.
Mr Singh, a BJP Lok Sabha member from Udhampur-Doda parliamentary seat of Jammu and Kashmir and a minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office, said: "The state leadership of BJP and PDP would finalise the nitty-gritty of the government formation in that state."
Mr Singh along with BJP's national general secretary Ram Madhav on Friday met party legislators of Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar and discussed the government formation.
Mr Singh arrived in Agartala on Saturday and met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. He also addressed a BJP's booth level workers' meet and Journalists' conference.
Jammu and Kashmir was placed under the Governor's Rule on January 8 after Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's death on January 7.
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's daughter and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, 56, is set to succeed him.
The PDP presently has 27 legislators in the 87-member legislative assembly. An independent legislator from the Ladakh region also supports the PDP.
BJP, which has 25 legislators, is supported by two legislators of Peoples Conference headed by Sajad Lone and an independent member.