Srinagar, April 10 -- Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that her party will challenge the recent Waqf bill amendment in the Supreme Court. She also came down heavily on the National Conference (NC) leadership, accusing them of double standards and complicity in allowing the amendment to pass unchallenged in the J&K Assembly.

Addressing a press conference, Mufti criticised NC leaders Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah for allegedly supporting the Centre's move by extending a warm welcome to Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju, who introduced the amendment in the Parliament. "Omar Abdullah was absent from the assembly when he should have stood u...