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| British government documents identify Rahul Gandhi s British citizen |
November 16, 2015, NewsCrunch
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Vadra met Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday evening.
Their visit, described as a courtesy call, follows BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's sensational disclosure that Rahul Gandhi had declared himself to be a British citizen in the documents of a private company floated and dissolved in Britain.
Swamy has threatened to write to Lok Sabha Speaker asking her to refer the matter to the Ethics Committee for stripping Rahul Gandhi of his membership of the House.
Congress sources maintained that Sonia's visit was scheduled earlier and not connected to the current controversy.
British Government documents show Rahul Gandhi as the director and secretary of the Backops Limited which functioned between 2003 and 2009.
When the company was incorporated the company documents identified Rahul Gandhi as an Indian national. But in two annual returns that later followed, he is identified as a British Citizen.
The Congress party has informally sought to dismiss the discrepancy as a clerical error and says it will write to British officials to correct the error.
British Government documents show Rahul Gandhi as the director and secretary of the Backops Limited which functioned between 2003 and 2009.
When the company was incorporated the company documents identified Rahul Gandhi as an Indian national. But in two annual returns that later followed, he is identified as a British Citizen.
The Congress party has informally sought to dismiss the discrepancy as a clerical error and says it will write to British officials to correct the error.