Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker has admitted two private member resolutions moved by PDP leader Wahid-ur-Rehman Para — one seeking the restoration of the J&K Waqf Board and its transfer to a religious body led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and another calling for the reinstatement of the erstwhile J&K cadre of civil and police services.
According to an official communication, the Speaker has approved Para’s resolutions under the Assembly rules. “The Speaker has been pleased to admit your resolutions — to restore the J&K Waqf Board and entrust its custodianship to the Muttahid-e-Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), and to restore the J&K cadre of IAS, IPS, KAS and KPS officers,” the Assembly Secretariat said in a letter to Para.
The nine-day autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is scheduled to begin in Srinagar on Thursday. Private member resolutions are subject to a ballot before being listed for discussion in the House.
The MMU, a coalition of religious organisations headed by Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has long opposed the 2025 Waqf Amendment Act, claiming it diluted Muslim control over religious endowments. In September 2025, the Supreme Court stayed parts of the Act but left several of MMU’s concerns unresolved.
The second resolution, concerning the restoration of the J&K cadre for IAS, IPS, KAS, and KPS officers, comes after the 2019 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act merged the former state’s services into the Arunachal Pradesh–Goa–Mizoram–Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. This merger effectively ended J&K’s distinct administrative and police service structures, bringing them under central control.
