Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday approached the Delhi high court seeking directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to cancel the Indian citizenship of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. The High Court is expected to hear the plea next week. The petition was submitted by lawyer Satya Sabharwal.
According to a report, Swamy had written to the home ministry in 2019 in which he claimed that a firm named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in 2003 and the Congress MP was one of its directors and secretary.
Subramanian Swamy alleged that the firm’s annual returns filed on October 10, 2005 and October 31, 2006 showed that Rahul Gandhi declared his nationality as British. The Bar and Bench report further quotes Swamy who alleged that Backops Limited’s dissolution application on February 17, 2009 had Gandhi’s nationality again declared as British.
Swamy alleged that it violated Article 9 of the Constitution of India and the Indian Citizenship Act, 1955. According to the report, the home ministry on April 29, 2019 had written to Rahul Gandhi and asked him to put forward the factual position in this regard within a fortnight.
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