Srinagar, Oct. 29 -- A day after the Jammu and Kashmir government's cabinet expansion, lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday issued orders allocating portfolios to the eight ministers. Deputy chief minister Surinder Kumar has been allotted public works (roads and buildings) department, industries and commerce, labour and employment, and skill development department, while Ali Mohammad Sagar will handle revenue, power development, department of law, justice and parliamentary affairs and department of disaster management, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction and election department. Sakeena Masood Itoo retains health and medical education department and social welfare department, while Javed Ahmad Rana will be in-charge of department of food, civil supplies and consumer affairs, tribal department, transport department. Javid Ahmed Dar has been allocated agriculture production department, finance department, mining department and cooperatives department, while Mir Saifullah will take care of planning, development and monitoring department, culture department, youth services and sports department, ARI & trainings department. Shamim Firdous has been allotted portfolios of school education department, higher education and jal shakti. Altaf Ahmad Wani will be in-charge of forest, ecology and environment department, rural department and panchayati raj. All other departments not allocated to any of the ministers will remain with the chief minister. The induction of four new ministers into the Omar Abdullah-led Jammu and Kashmir cabinet on Tuesday triggered widespread discontent and protests within the ruling National Conference (NC). Senior leaders and MLAs Mubarak Gul, Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri and Abdul Ma jeed Larmi, who were overlooked for ministerial berths, have openly expressed their disappointment. Gul's supporters held a protest at Press Colony in Srinagar on Wednesday, accusing the party leadership of ignoring him. They urged Gul to resign from his assembly seat and the post of general secretary. Gul, a former J&K Speaker and the party's general secretary, said that he was weighing his options and would reveal his next move at an appropriate time. Another NC legislator, Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri, congratulated the new ministers but took a dig at the party, saying that non-performing ministers had been allowed to continue. Leaders familiar with the developments said more than half a dozen NC legislators feel they have been ignored. On Wednesday, legislator Abdul Majeed Larmi said he was more deserving of a cabinet berth than Pahalgam legislator Altaf Ahmad Wani. He, however, said he will remain loyal to the party. Supporters of the overlooked legislators openly blamed the chief minister's adviser, Nasir Aslam Wani, for creating a mess in the party. Wani and minister Sakina Itoo said the resentment within the party ranks will be addressed internally. Meanwhile, the main opposition party, BJP, accused the ruling NC leadership of promoting sycophancy by inducting leaders loyal to the Abdullah family. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur alleged that the NC was indulging in "kitchen cabinet" politics. "The NC has every right to induct whomever they want. But those who have been loyal to the party were kept away, while those who are loyal to the Abdullah family have been inducted. This is called a kitchen cabinet," Thakur alleged....