Nasir Wani appointed Adviser to CM

Hours after Omar Abdullah took oath as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the government on Wednesday appointed senior National Conference leader Nasir Aslam Wani as adviser to the chief minister.

Wani is a close aide of Abdullah and served as the minister of state during his first tenure between 2009 and 2014 and held charge of multiple ministries.

In another order, the government rescinded various orders which gave powers to the Administrative Council headed by the Lieutenant Governor for governing the union territory.

According to an official statement, some such government orders instituted in 2020 stand withdrawn.

The order for rescinding them was issued by Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, General Adminstration Department, Sanjeev Verma.

It comes in the backdrop of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his five-member council of ministers assuming the charge of the government after they were sworn in earlier in the day.