BJP to present Subba CD to Speaker

MURDER OF LEGISLATURE: There have been reports that Subba was a murder convict in Nepal.

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New Delhi: Calls for the termination of Congress MP from Assam Moni Kumar Subba's membership from Parliament are increasing after CNN-IBN's investigation revealed he may not be an Indian citizen, and hence not eligible to be a member of Parliament.

A BJP team, armed with a CD containing CNN-IBN's investigation, is calling on the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, urging him to take action.

BJP spokesperson V K Malhotra has written a letter to the Speaker on the issue saying that investigative journalism has helped being the Subba issue to light.

He has said in his letter that the Speaker should go over the facts and hand over the case to an investigative authority.

Subba is being accused of being a Nepali citizen. But the suspicion over his nationality has not stopped him from becoming a Congress Member of Parliament from Tezpur, Assam.

The Supreme Court, hearing a case that has challenged his status as an Indian, has given Subba time till April 20 to prove his Indian nationality.

Over the years, there have been reports that Subba was, in fact, a murder convict in Nepal, and he was imprisoned from 1971 to 1973 before he escaped to India.

CNN-IBN's investigation revealed that Subba had repeatedly lied about his birthplace and had claimed to have studied in a school before it had even been constructed.

After settling down in India, Subba set up a successful gambling and lottery business, systematically erasing his Nepali past. He even managed to get elected to the august House of Parliament, not once but twice.

For at least 16 years, Subba brazenly snubbed allegations that he is not an Indian.

CNN-IBN’s Special Investigation Team had obtained letters from the Union Home Ministry, which show that the Government itself has suspicions about Subba’s nationality.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed three reports on Subba’s nationality, but has found no “conclusive evidence”.

"In absence of any evidence regarding the birthplace or year of birth of MK Subba, no final view could be taken about his nationality," the CBI has told the Supreme Court, which on January 19 asked the MP to prove his citizenship.

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