Will deal with it: Rahul on notice on British citizenship controversy
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.
Congress leaders have accused the Speaker of bypassing "the process of natural justice" by not asking Gandhi for his version first.
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.
The documents showed that Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of UK-based "Backops Limited" in 2005 and 2006.
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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