Home ministry issues notice to Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship

Home ministry issues notice to Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship

FPJ Web DeskUpdated: Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 11:44 PM IST
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The Union home ministry has issued a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship after receiving a complaint from Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.

According to Zee News, the Ministry said to have acted on the complaint of BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy who had raised objections over Rahul’s citizenship. In the letter MHA, said, “It has been brought out that a Company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in the year 2003..and that you were one of the Directors and Secretary of the said Company. It has been further brought out in the complaint that in the Company’s Annual Returns filed on 10/10/2005 and 31/10/2006, your date of birth has been given as 19/06/1970 and that you had declared your nationality as British. Further, in the Dissolution application dated 17/02/2009 of the above-referred company, your nationality has been mentioned as British.”

“You are requested to intimate the factual position in the matter to this ministry within a fortnight of the receipt of the communication,” the home ministry says. Reacting to which Subramanian Swamy tweeted, “Has MHA issued Notice on my Complaint to Buddhu on his British Citizenship today?”

Earlier, an Independent candidate, Dhruv Lal, from Amethi filed a complaint alleging discrepancies in Rahul Gandhi’s candidature. “There are three basic issues we have raised,” Ravi Prakash, who is Dhruv Lal’s lawyer, told ANI. One of the issues he raised is on the “basis of a certificate of incorporation of a company registered in the UK wherein Rahul Gandhi has declared himself to be a UK citizen,” Prakash alleged. “On what basis has he become a British citizen? And, how did he obtain Indian citizenship now? Unless there is clarity over the matter, we have requested the returning officer not to accept Rahul Gandhi’s nomination papers,” Prakash told ANI.

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