Jammu Tawi, April 8 -- A "chance meeting" between Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union minister Kiren Rijiju at Asia's largest Tulip Garden here on Monday triggered a political storm with opposition parties dubbing it as "Waqf law bonhomie".

Sources in the ruling National Conference said that Omar Abdullah was accompanying his father and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah after the latter expressed a wish to visit the Tulip Garden which is in full bloom these days.

The sources said the father-son duo bumped into Rijiju, who had also come to visit the garden early in the morning.

The politicians from the opposite sides of political spectrum exchanged pleasantries before heading their separate ways, they said.

Rijij...