[dropcap]T[/dropcap]HE Ministry of Home Affairs has served notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi asking him to clarify the “factual position” on his citizenship.
Gandhi has been given 15 days to reply to this notice. The notice was served after a complaint was filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
We have “received a representation from Dr Subramanian Swamy, Hon’ble M.P. in which it has been brought out that a Company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in 2003, …. with you (Rahul Gandhi) as one of the Directors and Secretary of the said Company.
“In the Company’s Annual Returns filed on 10/10/2005 and 31/10/2006, your (Rahul Gandhi’s) date of birth has been given as 19/06/1970 and that you (Rahul Gandhi) had declared his nationality as British,” the Home Ministry said in its letter said.
Swamy’s complaint also said Backop’s dissolution application referred to Rahul Gandhi’s nationality as British.
“You are requested to intimate the factual position in the matter to this Ministry within a fortnight of the receipt of this communication,” the Home Ministry said in the notice issued on April 29, 2019.
In 2015, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India H L Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy had dismissed a public interest petition filed by advocate M L Sharma questioning Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship.
“I have two more days in office, don’t force me to impose exemplary costs on you,” was Justice Dattu reaction to the petition.
