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Rahul asked to explain British citizenship charge by Parliamentary panel

Rahul asked to explain British citizenship charge by Parliamentary panel

| | 14 Mar 2016, 11:25 am
New Delhi, Mar 14 (IBNS) Causing embarrassment to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, the Parliamentary ethics committee has asked him to clarify whether he once declared himself a British citizen on the legal papers of a UK company.

According to reports, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has  referred a complaint by lawmaker Mahesh Giri to the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha. The 11-member panel is headed  by senior BJP leader LK Advani.

The  committee has sent notice to  Gandhi asking him to respond to the "complaint of ethical misconduct by Subramanian Swamy and forwarded by Mahesh Giri.

A controversy over Gandhi's "British citizenship" was kicked up in November, 2015 when BJP leader  said that he had accessed documents to show that  Gandhi claimed British nationality to set up a company in the UK.

The Congress leader was said to be the director and secretary of the company.

However, countering the allegation the  Congress released another document of the same company, in which Gandhi had declared himself Indian. The party also described as a "typing error" the discrepancy between the document and the British government's records.

 Gandhi also rejected allegations of impropriety and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to jail him if he was proven guilty.

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