PDP president Mehbooba Mufti will be sworn in as the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir today heading a coalition government with BJP in the only Muslim-majority state.

The 56-year-old leader, daughter of PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, will

take oath of office at Raj Bhawan in Jammu today at 11 am.

Mehbooba assuming office will be a landmark event in the history of Jammu and Kashmir as well as rest of the country. She will be the first woman to head a government in Jammu and Kashmir and the first Muslim woman to become the chief minister of a state in India.

Governor N N Vohra on Saturday invited the PDP president to form and lead the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state. The PDP-BJP government can expect a smooth run if the two ideologically opposite parties can avoid controversies that dogged their first brush together with power when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed headed the government for 10 months till his death on January 7.