The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has given the Home Ministry four weeks – the ask was for eight weeks, i.e., April 21 – to decide on the issue of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship.
Questions around Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship – he has been a Lok Sabha MP since 2004 and is currently the Leader of the Opposition – have been doing the rounds for several years now.
The present case is based on a petition filed by a private individual from Karnataka – a lawyer called Vignesh Shishir who is also believed to be a BJP worker – who has sought an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation on grounds he has new information about Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship status.
He has claimed he has confidential e-mails – from the British government – to support his claim. “We have direct communication from the UK government that Rahul Gandhi is in their citizenship records.”