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Rahul Gandhi's nomination for Amethi LS seat found valid
The Amethi returning officer Monday set aside objections on Congress president Rahul Gandhi's nomination papers for the seat and held the document valid.
Amethi: The Amethi returning officer (RO) Monday set aside objections on Congress president Rahul Gandhi's nomination papers for the seat and held the document valid, after scrutinising allegations of discrepancies over citizenship and other issues.
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After hearing Gandhi's counsel, Returning Officer Ram Manohar Misra declared his nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat as valid.
An Independent candidate and three others had on Saturday raised objections over the Congress president's nomination from Amethi, alleging discrepancies over citizenship and educational qualifications in his election affidavit.
KC Kaushik, lawyer of Rahul Gandhi on objections raised on Rahul's nomination: Rahul Gandhi was born in India and he holds an Indian passport, he never took citizenship of any other country. His passport, Voter-ID, and his income tax, everything is of India. #Amethi pic.twitter.com/Ld3qWjMPX8
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 22, 2019
Complainant Dhruv Lal's lawyer Ravi Prakash had submitted before the RO purported copies of a certificate of incorporation of a UK-registered company in which the Congress leader is stated to be a British national.
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KC Kaushik, lawyer of Rahul Gandhi on objections raised on Rahul's educational qualification: I don't know who Raul Vinci is or where he came from. Rahul Gandhi had done his M.Phil in 1995 from University of Cambridge, I have attached a copy of the certificate. https://t.co/wx36r4Vigm
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 22, 2019
He claimed that the UK company had existed for five years and would have made some profit, but that has not been disclosed in the affidavit.
Prakash said he had sought a clarification on Gandhi's citizenship as being a UK citizen would bar him from contesting the Lok Sabha elections. (PTI)