Ahmedabad

Senior leader and former union minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy has in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged that citizenship and membership of the Lok Sabha of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi should be stripped. Dr. Subramanian Swamy has in support to his demand enclosed some authenticated company documents from Britain in which Rahul Gandhi has declared himself a British citizen with UK address.

Dr. Swamy has in his letter said: ‘I am enclosing with this letter some authenticated documents regarding the registration in 2003 and dissolution in 2009 of a Private Ltd. Company in United Kingdom with an address located in London. The name of the company is Backops Limited and the Director and Secretary of this company was Mr. Rahul Gandhi, presently Lok Sabha MP. The incorporation papers of this company No. 4874597 was filed with the Registrar of Companies in England and Wales on August 21, 2003 and the dissolution was on February 17, 2009’……………’Hence I urge you to treat this matter with great urgency and immediately take necessary steps to see if this prima facie evidence is rebuttable, and if not, order that Mr. Rahul Gandhi be stripped of his citizenship, and his membership of the Lok Sabha, forthwith.”

The letter of Dr. Swamy and enclosed documents are presented here via Dr. Swamy run organization Virat Hindustan Sangam(VHS).

All supporting documents enclosed by Dr Swamy with his letter can be found on this link .

This particular web page from British government website’s record too mentions Rahul Gandhi as British Citizen.

Update:

A discussion has started on this on social media, but something that has emerged is this: The citizenship was corrected to ‘Indian’ by hand till 2006 in records.

A Google search revealed this about 2 Frognal Way. pic.twitter.com/4qKpNUJIqq

— Swapan Dasgupta (@swapan55) November 16, 2015

So Rahul Gandhi is on Electoral Rolls in UK on the same address which was mentioned in Company details. Now??? pic.twitter.com/uonLNA2xxe

— Dhaval Patel (@dhaval241086) November 16, 2015

Congress party has in reaction issued following statement:

New Delhi

Congress today dismissed as “entirely false” BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s allegation that Rahul Gandhi has claimed himself to be a British national before the authorities there.

“From the day he was born, Rahul Gandhi has held Indian citizenship and Indian passport and has never held citizenship of any other country nor has he represented as such. The allegation by Dr. Swamy is entirely false”, party’s chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said in a strongly-worded statement.

He also released a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation of the company Gandhi was trying to set up in the U K in 2003 which clearly mentioned that the Congress Vice President as an “Indian national”.

“Frustrated by their humiliating defeat in Bihar elections and internal revolt brewing amongst the senior-most leadership, BJP s dirty tricks department led by Subramanian Swamy is resorting to petty and mindless mud-slinging”

“The sole purpose appears to be to divert attention from inner revolt and paralysis of policy and governance being questioned all around including the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, Surjewala said.

He claimed that Swamy and BJP are “repeating rehashed allegations” leveled earlier on multiple occasions including through press conferences held in Ahmedabad and Delhi in October 2012. “We reject them with the contempt they deserve and the falsehood they seek to perpetuate”, he said.

Besides, Surjewala insisted that Gandhi has never held any account in Pictet Bank, Zurich, nor has he ever been questioned or detained at Logan Airport, Boston, with undeclared cash.

“This is a complete falsehood that Swamy is in the habit of falsely repeating for decades for his malicious political motives and to gain cheap publicity”, he added.

Surjewala’s statement came within hours of Swamy making the allegainst Gandhi at a press conference and demanding that he be stripped of Indian citizenship and Lok Sabha membership.

Swamy wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking action against Gandhi. He said he would write to the Lok Sabha Speaker asking for either constitution of a special committee or refer the matter to the Ethics Committee for stripping Gandhi of his membership of the House.PTI

– DeshGujarat