Rahul Gandhi is definitely floating in that bizarre of allegations where questions are put for his citizenship to be British and not Indian. On that note, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has written to PM Narendra Modi about cancelling his Indian citizenship and parliamentary authorities. But for now, the accusations had been dismissed.
Swamy at specially organized press conference said “I wrote to PM Modi on November 12, asking him to initiate steps to cancel Rahul’s citizenship and will ask Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a committee or direct the committee on ethics to cancel his Lok Sabha membership.”
Congress took it as dirty tricks that BJP is playing as the shock of losing in Bihar is coming up this way. As reported. BJP was resorting to “petty and mindless mud-slinging” as it was “frustrated by its humiliating defeat in Bihar and internal revolt brewing amongst the senior most leadership.”
The letter that BJP leader Swamy wrote mentioned that Rahul Gandhi had founded a company called Backops Limited in 2003 in the UK, and in the documents he was mentioned a British national with his British address. Rahul had 65 % shares in the company as well.
As per the letter “Same facts were repeated, viz, that Mr Rahul Gandhi as having British nationality in the annual returns filed on Oct 31, 2006 as well. No MP can incorporate a company abroad without permission and without declaring the same in his nomination form as a candidate for election to Parliament. Congress communication department head Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “The sole purpose appears to be to divert attention from inner revolt and paralysis of policy and governance being questioned all around.”
On Rahul’s behalf Surjewala said “Rahul Gandhi has not filed any such return. If somebody has committed an error while uploading, it can be corrected. It is correctable. Rahul has held Indian citizenship from the day he was born.”
