Jammu: The BJP on Friday pledged support to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to form a new government under Mehbooba Mufti's leadership in Jammu and Kashmir, paving the way for her to be the first woman chief minister of India's only Muslim-majority state.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also elected Nirmal Singh as its leader in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly and nominated him for the deputy chief minister's post in the new PDP-BJP alliance government to be formed soon. Mehbooba was on Thursday elected the leader of PDP's legislature party.