267:. After three months of negotiations with BJP, Drabu along with Ram Madhav of the BJP scripted the basis of the BJP-PDP alliance to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir. Drabu was later elected as Finance Minister in the government. Soon after Drabu was sacked from the cabinet in March 2018 by Mehbooba Mufti over his controversial remarks about the state, he quitted PDP in December 2018. Soon after his exit, the alliance broke and the BJP-PDP government in J&K fell.
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