New Delhi: BJP MP Mahesh Girri on Wednesday demanded a probe into the allegations levelled by party leader Subramanian Swamy that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi declared himself a British citizen to float a firm in that country.
In a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan Girri said,“It is necessary that people should get to know the reality in this issue. Request you to initiate an appropriate inquiry,”
“He is vice-president of Congress which ruled the country for six decades. The country has a right to know whether he is an Indian citizen or British,” Girri told The Indian Express.
Girri also said that he would raise the matter in Lok Sabha.
Swamy has alleged that Rahul claimed himself to be a British national before authorities there and demanded that he be stripped of Indian citizenship and Lok Sabha membership.
Circulating copies of documents extracted purportedly from the company law authorities of Britain, he had said that Gandhi had declared himself as a British national in documents related to a now-dissolved company. This, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a violation of constitutional provisions and demanded that action be taken against Rahul.
However Congress dismissed the allegations saying,"Rahul Gandhi has never held a non-Indian passport and never been on non-Indian citizenship."
