Government of Jammu and Kashmir

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Government of Jammu and Kashmir

Seat of Government	Srinagar, Jammu
Legislative branch
Assembly	Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Abdul Rahim Rather
Members in Assembly	114 seats (90 seats + 24 seats reserved for Pakistan administered Kashmir)[1]
Executive branch
Lieutenant Governor	Manoj Sinha
Chief Minister (Head of Government)	Omar Abdullah
Deputy Chief Minister (Deputy Head of Government)	Surinder Kumar Choudhary
Chief Secretary	Atal Dulloo, IAS
Judiciary
High Court	Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
Chief Justice	Tashi Rabstan

The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is the principal administrative authority responsible for the governance of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Established on 5 March 1948 as the Government of Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the reorganization of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir in October 2019, the government operates under the framework of the Indian constitution.^[2][3] The union territory comprises two divisions—Jammu and Kashmir—with different cultural and geographical characteristics.^[4]

Jammu and Kashmir is a union territory in India under the terms of Article 239A (which was initially applied to Puducherry and is now also applicable to the union territory as per the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019) of the Constitution of India. Jammu and Kashmir has executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. Srinagar and Jammu are the summer and winter capitals of Jammu and Kashmir respectively.