On Swamy’s Complaint, MHA Asks Rahul to Give “Factual Position” Of His Citizenship

A grumbling from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy says the Congress president's nationality was pronounced as British in archives identified with a U.K. organization that he was a chief in.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), following up on a protest from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, has asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to give the "genuine position" of his citizenship.

Mr. Swamy has asserted that Mr. Gandhi had pronounced his nationality as "English" in archives identified with a United Kingdom organization that he was a chief in.

Keeping in touch with Mr. Gandhi on Monday, MHA chief (citizenship) B.C. Joshi said the Ministry had gotten a portrayal from Mr. Swamy that an organization, Backups Limited, was enlisted in the U.K. in 2003 and Mr. Gandhi was a chief and secretary of the organization.

The protest said the yearly profits petitioned for October 10, 2005, and October 31, 2006, indicated Mr. Gandhi's nationality as British. In the application for the disintegration of the organization dated February 12, 2009, Mr. Gandhi's nationality was again pronounced as British.

"You are mentioned to suggest the truthful position in the issue to this Ministry inside a fortnight of the receipt of this correspondence," the letter expressed.

As indicated by an MHA official, the grievance goes back to 2015.