Days after alleging that Narendra Modi government is not taking action to cancel Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship as his father Sonia Gandhi is `blackmailing’ him, senior BJP leader and former union minister Dr Subramanian Swamy has filed a PIL in Delhi High Court.
In his petition he sought direction from the Union Home Ministry to cancel the Indian citizenship of Rahul Gandhi when the Congress leader has “declared himself as a British citizen.”
In his petition, Swamy stated that he is approaching the High Court after sending many representations to the Home Ministry asking for an update and the status of his complaint, but no action has been taken or intimated to him about the same.
On X on Friday, Swamy said that he has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) on the failure of the Centre to prosecute Rahul Gandhi and show cause why he should not be stripped of his Indian citizenship.
The plea seeks direction to furnish a status report on the complaint/representation filed by Swamy against Gandhi and decide it at the earliest.
The BJP leader, in 2019, wrote a letter to the Union Home Ministry on violations made by Rahul Gandhi in voluntarily disclosing to the UK government that he is a citizen of British nationality, holding a British passport.
Swamy said that with this declaration, the Congress leader ceases to be an Indian citizen in terms of Article 9 of the Constitution read with the Indian Citizenship Act, 1955.
According to Swamy’s petition, a company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in the year 2003, with an address of 51 Southgate Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9EH, where Gandhi was 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 (Gandhi) date of birth has been given as 19/06/1970, and you have declared your nationality as British.
Further, in the dissolution application dated February 17, 2009, of the above-referred company, your nationality has been mentioned as British,” said the Union Home Ministry in correspondence to Rahul Gandhi on Swamy’s complaint.
