Srinagar, Oct. 28 -- With four new ministers inducted into the Omar Abdullah-led Jammu and Kashmir cabinet on Tuesday, the expansion brought a mix of celebration and disappointment, leaving several senior legislators sidelined even as party president Farooq Abdullah hailed it as a "good change."

Welcoming the move at the party headquarters, Nawa-i-Subah, Farooq Abdullah said, "A very good cabinet change has taken place. They [ministers] will work and try to ease the difficulties and problems of the people."

The newly sworn-in ministers are Ali Mohammad Sagar (Khanyar, Srinagar), Saifullah Mir (Trehgam, Kupwara), Altaf Wani (Pahalgam, Anantnag), and Shameema Firdous (Habbakadal, Srinagar).

However, former minister and Speaker Mubarak Gu...