Kathua rape case: Jammu BJP shows solidarity with sacked ministers

In the state assembly, the PDP has 28 legislators and BJP has 25

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asked all its nine ministers in Mehbooba Mufti-led Jammu and Kashmir government to quit the state council of ministers.

According to party sources, this was to pave the way to bring in new faces in the Mufti cabinet. The Peoples Democratic Party-BJP alliance would continue, and that there was no threat to the two-year-old Mufti-led coalition government, they said.

The BJP’s move comes in the wake of two of its ministers, Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga, having been asked to quit the state cabinet. This was after a nationwide outrage over Singh’s and Ganga’s