Easy come, easy go

Congress is known to have a cavalier attitude towards issues such as national security and citizenship. Now they are embracing escaped convicts from other countries as their members.

Moni Kumar Subba, Congress MP from Tezpur in Assam, flashes his birth certificate when he is accused of being a foreigner who has faked his identity.A CNN-IBN investigation in March 2006 exposed Subba for lying about his place of birth and hiding his Nepalese identity. The birth certificate is the only document Subba has to prove his Indian citizenship, but a CNN-IBN investigation has again established that the certificate is a fake and that he is a foreign national. [link]

Subba is also suspected of being a convicted felon in Nepal. But then again, that may not be such an exclusive honor for a member of the Congress party.

This is not the only case where a person without proper citizenship holds a prominent political position.

An LJP legislator from Bihar has been asked by the Election Commission to explain her position in response to the allegation that she was not a citizen of the country. Nagina Devi, MLA from Bathnaha, received a letter from the EC asking her to be present in person on September 17 to explain her position on the allegation that she was a Nepali citizen, official sources said on Tuesday. In the event of her not turning up, it would be deemed that she had nothing to say in her defence, the letter said. [link]

While we are at it, there is no harm in checking out some of the MPs and MLAs from West Bengal.