Delhi HC asks Centre to respond to Subramanian Swamy’s plea about Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship
In 2019, the BJP leader claimed that Gandhi had ‘voluntarily disclosed’ to the government of the United Kingdom that he was a citizen of the country.
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The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Centre to respond to a petition by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy concerning the citizenship of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Live Law reported.
In August 2019, Swamy wrote a letter to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs claiming that Gandhi had “voluntarily disclosed” to the government of the United Kingdom that he was a citizen of that country, and that this implied that the Congress leader held a British passport, the Hindustan Times reported.
Subsequently, Swamy sought a direction from the court to the Centre for an update on the status of his complaint seeking that Gandhi’s Indian citizenship be revoked, Live Law reported.
On Friday, a bench of acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela was told that the counsel representing the Centre in the matter had been designated as a senior advocate recently. Therefore, the matter had to be assigned to a new counsel.
The proxy counsel for the Centre sought time for a new counsel to take over the case, The Hindu reported.
However, Swamy, who appeared in person, urged the court to issue notice on the petition. The bench in reply said that it “will see what their [Centre] stand is and will then seek their response if we want”, The Hindu reported.
It listed the matter for further hearing...
