I agree certain facts of MK Gandhi ji's query and responses. We Indians are concerned about her eligiblity for MP and Chairperson of UPA. We are not concerned about her origin or her personal life. At present situation if a foregin national rule India how do you feel?
Elected representatives including MPs, MLAs and local bodies members are not covered under the Right to Information Act in 'individual'capacity, Central Information Commission.
Now the question is whether she comes under RTI or not?
NEW DELHI: Is Congress President Sonia Gandhi possessing two
passports, one Indian and another Italian? And, did she travel
to the European countries in the last two years on her Italian
passport?
A word has spread in the capital, and nobody knows by whom, that
she has travelled around the Europe on the Italian passport as
that helped her travel free in the European Union (formerly EEC
-- European Economic Community) countries without the need of
procuring visas for each country.
It has gained so much currency that the Vajpayee Government has
asked the external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW), to get a detailed report on her travels abroad in
the past five years. Several internal inquiries have been made
to find if she can be nailed down and the results are with the
Union Home Ministry.
In any case, Sonia Gandhi can not travel secretly since she is
tailed round-the-clock by personnel from the Special Protection
Group (SPG) that provides her the security cover wherever she
goes, whether in India or abroad. As such the Government already
possesses records of her travels maintained by the SPG.
GOING TO COURT: Reports are going around that someone may even
go to a High Court or the Supreme Court very soon to press for
cancellation of her Indian nationality on the ground of her
travels in the Europe as an Italian, challenging her to show
entries of the visas otherwise on her Indian passport for travel
to certain European countries.
Though origin of all these reports is untraceable, an obvious
suspect is the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) which wants to
put a stamp of "foreigner" on Sonia Gandhi in the elections to
build up a nationalist appeal against "a foreigner's sinister
design to annex India." It has several outfits under the
umbrella of the "Sangh Parivar" to do the job like the Bajrang
Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) which attacked the
Congress once again on Tuesday for trying to thrust a
"foreigner" on India as the next Prime Minister.
Sources in the BJP headquarters deny any hand in spread of
reports about Sonia Gandhi's dual citizenship but they say the
party would certainly approach the district magistrate of
Sultanpur, if she files nomination for Amethi or the returning
officer of whichever constituency she picks up to contest, to
demand rejection of her papers with the plea that she has not
surrendered her "mother passport" of Italy and as such she was a
foreigner who cannot contest elections in India.
Top lawyers have been engaged to make out a case that she had
got her name included in Delhi's voters' list by suppressing the
information that she continues to have the Italian passport, the
sources said.
NO DENIALS: Nobody in the Congress or for that matter at her 10
Janpath residence, however, is ready to end the word-by-mouth
campaign going on against her by denying her possession of two
passports as even her close aide like AICC general secretary
Pranab Mukherjee, who also took over as the AICC Media
Department Chairman on Tuesday, wriggled out the other day
saying he does not know about it.
The AICC sources pleaded that the party cannot keep on denying
all sorts of "rumours" being spread these days by those fearing
rout because of the "Sonia wave" building up across the country.
The Italian law permits dual citizenship and as such an Italian
can hold two passports. The Indian laws are, however, very
strict. Anybody acquiring or possessing a foreign country's
passport automatically loses the Indian citizenship and is
required to immediately surrender his Indian passport.