People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Para stated today that the PDP will formally urge the Assembly Speaker to consider a resolution regarding the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board. Para announced that his resolution for restoring the Waqf Board and transferring its custodianship to the Muttahid-e-Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) was not selected in the Assembly ballot. The PDP plans to ask Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather to use his discretionary powers to include the resolution in the Assembly's agenda. Para called the Waqf matter a "sensitive, faith-linked issue" that should be discussed in the legislature and returned to local religious leadership under Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. These statements were made on the first day of the nine-day autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. This is a developing political story in Jammu and Kashmir. The PDP and other opposition parties are also preparing to confront the National Conference (NC)-led government on multiple other issues, including the detention of AAP MLA Mehraj Malik and concerns over the Rajya Sabha elections.