New Delhi, Apr 30 : Reacting to the Home Ministry notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue following a complaint by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, Congress on Tuesday asserted that Rahul is an Indian by birth and said it will give befitting reply on the allegations over his citizenship issue.
Addressing a press conference here , Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that in 2015 also the same allegations were levelled by the same people over the issue of alleged citizenship.
He said the issue had reached the Supreme Court in the same year, and the apex court had
rejected the allegations.
” Rahul Gandhi is Indian by birth,” he said and termed the allegations as intended to divert from real issues.
” Such malicious allegations will not divert the agenda,” he said.
The party furnished in support of their claim a certificate of incorporation of the UK firm BackOps, in which the Congress president worked as a director.
The Congress spokesperson termed the row over Mr Gandhi’s citizenship as a “baseless charge”
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had sent a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue following a complaint by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
The MHA’s notice, sent by Foreigners Division of Home Ministry on Monday, has requested Mr Gandhi to “intimate factual position on the matter” within 15 days.
A 14-page notice has been served to the Gandhi scion on a complaint by Dr Swamy claiming that Mr Gandhi had, in a British Company’s Annual Returns filed on October 10,2005 and October 31,2006, declared his nationality as British.
