The PDP and the BJP on 26th March 2016 called on Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra and staked claim to form the new government under Mehbooba Mufti. 
•    The date for the swearing in has not been decided yet.
•    Ms Mufti will be the first woman Chief Minister of the state.
•    It was Ms Mufti's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday that broke the deadlock that had persisted for well over two months.
•    PDP legislature party had elected her its leader and named her the party chief ministerial candidate. 
•    BJP legislators in Jammu elected Nirmal Singh as its leader. He will again be the Deputy Chief Minister in the new cabinet, a post he had under Mufti Mohammed Sayeed who died in January.
•    The state has been under Governor's Rule since early January after the death of former chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
•    The PDP chief had refused to succeed her father as the chief minister, demanding that the BJP honour the conditions laid down in the Agenda of Alliance, a blueprint crafted when the two parties decided on co-governing the state.
•    BJP has been strongly against  PDP because of its ideology.