Allahabad High Court Dismisses PIL Alleging Rahul Gandhis Dual Citizenship

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday disregarded the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that Congress MP and Leader of Opposition within the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, holds twin citizenship of India and the United Kingdom. The PIL was once filed by means of BJP employee S Vignesh Shishir from Karnataka, claiming that Rahul Gandhi was once a citizen of Britain in addition to India, making him ineligible to contest elections underneath Article 84 (A) of the Constitution.

During the listening to, the Lucknow Bench directed the Central Government to publish main points of the motion taken up to now at the case, and then the case was once disregarded. Earlier, the Court, in its ultimate listening to, expressed dissatisfaction with the standing document by means of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to immediately cope with whether or not Gandhi is an Indian citizen.

The bench had then granted 10 days for the federal government to publish a revised document, explicitly answering the query of Gandhi’s citizenship standing following a petition filed alleging that the Congress MP has twin citizenship. In 2019, the MHA issued a understand to Gandhi referring to his citizenship after receiving a criticism from then Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.

Swamy has alleged that an organization named Backops Limited was once registered within the United Kingdom within the 12 months 2003 and that Gandhi was once one of the vital Directors and secretaries of the corporate. Subramanian Swamy has additionally said that the Congress chief had declared his nationality as British in a UK-based corporate.

“It has been further brought out in the complaint that in the Company’s Annual Returns filed on October 10, 2005, and October 31, 2006, your date of birth has been given as June 19, 1970, and that you had declared your nationality as British. Further, in the Dissolution application dated 17/02/2009 of the above-referred company, your nationality has been mentioned as British,” the awareness learn.