Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a notice to the Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the controversy of his citizenship. The notice was issued on the basis of the representation made by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in which he has revealed that a company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in the year 2003. MHA has cited documents of the British company BackOps where Rahul Gandhi filed returns as a British citizen and sought a response from him within 10 days. The notice says that Rahul Gandhi was the Director and Secretary of the said company. Ministry has provided the time of two weeks to Rahul Gandhi to file his reply.

 

 

 

According to the notice Rahul Gandhi has mentioned his nationality as British in the Company’s Annual Returns filed on 10th October 2005 and 31st October 2006. Even in the dissolution application dated 17th February 2009, he was mentioned as a British citizen.

 

 

The matter of citizenship had also arisen when representation was made to the Election Commission about Rahul Gandhi’s election affidavit from Amethi. That complaint was however disposed off saying that this is the domain of the Home Ministry and not of the Election Commission.