A plea moved before the Delhi High Court has sought direction to the Election Commission to ban National Conference’s leaders Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party’s Mehbooba Mufti from participating in the Lok Sabha poll.

The plea filed by advocate Sanjjiiv Kkumaar has claimed that the recent statements made by three Jammu and Kashmir politicians in public and social media were allegedly seditious.

‘Mockery of democracy’

“Will it not be a mockery of democracy to allow those people and parties to participate in the Lok Sabha election when people/parties openly call for sedition to divide Mother India on the basis of religion [Muslim majority] and two Prime Ministers [for Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of India]...,” the petition said.

It also sought a direction to book them under various charges, including sedition and inciting hatred, of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act.

No faith in Constitution

Advocate Kkumaar said the three politicians “have no faith in the Indian Constitution and hence they and their party PDP and NC should be barred from participating in Lok Sabha election”.

The plea is yet to come up for hearing before the High Court.