{"id":312088,"date":"2019-05-09T08:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312088"},"modified":"2019-05-09T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:33:51","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-questioning-rahul-gandhis-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-dismisses-plea-questioning-rahul-gandhis-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea questioning Rahul Gandhi\u2019s citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-696x702.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting the Lok Sabha elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petitioners had said that in a form along with the annual data of a UK-based company in 2005-06, it was allegedly mentioned that Rahul Gandhi is a British citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi rejected the contention of the petitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf some company in some form mentions his nationality as British, does he become a British citizen,\u201d the bench said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petitions were filed by two activists\u00a0wanted the top Court to direct the government to decide whether Rahul Gandhi was a British citizen and whether he should be allowed to contest the Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In April, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notice to Rahul Gandhi to clarify his nationality within a fortnight after\u00a0BJP\u00a0MP Subramanian Swamy alleged that he is a British citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking to debar Congress President Rahul Gandhi from contesting the Lok Sabha elections till the issue of his citizenship is decided. The petitioners had said that in a form along with the annual data of a UK-based company in 2005-06, it was allegedly mentioned that Rahul Gandhi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[579,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312092,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312088\/revisions\/312092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}