SRINAGAR, Oct 23: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Para said that his resolution seeking the restoration of the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board and the transfer of its custodianship to the Muttahid-e-Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) was dropped during the Assembly ballot.
Para said the PDP will formally urge Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather to use his discretion to include the resolution in the legislative business, describing Waqf as a “sensitive, faith-linked issue that deserves debate and return to local religious leadership.”
“Our resolution to restore the J&K Waqf Board and hand over its custodianship to the Muttahid-e-Majlis-e-Ulema was dropped in the Assembly ballot. We will formally urge Speaker A.R. Rather Sahab to use his discretion to include it in legislative business.
Waqf is a sensitive, faith-linked issue that deserves debate and return to local religious leadership under Mirwaiz,” Para wrote on X. The appeal came on a day the nine-day autumn session of the J&K Assembly commenced.
Earlier, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker had admitted two private member resolutions moved by Para, one of which calls for the restoration of the Waqf Board and handing over its management to the MMU, a religious conglomerate headed by Hurriyat chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Earlier, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker had admitted two private member resolutions moved by Para, including one calling for the restoration of the Waqf Board and its management by the MMU, a religious conglomerate headed by Hurriyat chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The MMU, a conglomerate of religious bodies in Jammu and Kashmir representing different schools of thought, has maintained that the 2025 Waqf Amendment Act undermines Muslim control over religious endowments and is discriminatory in nature. The MMU has been reiterating that any attempt to dilute Muslim control over these sacred endowments or to erode their historic protection was “unacceptable to the community”. (Agencies)
