August 16, 2024: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday approached the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to cancel the Indian citizenship of leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.

According to the report by legal website Bar and Bench, Swamy had written to the home ministry in 2019 in which he claimed that a firm named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in 2003 and the Congress MP was one of its directors and secretary.

Swamy alleged that the firm’s annual returns filed on October 10, 2005 and October 31, 2006 showed that Rahul Gandhi declared his nationality as British. The Bar and Bench report further quotes Sway who alleged that Backops Limited’s dissolution application on February 17, 2009 had Gandhi’s nationality again declared as British.

The BJP alleged that even after five years since his letter, there is no clarity on the home ministry on the decision taken on Rahul Gandhi.