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Cong MP born 4 times at 3 places!
Published on Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 20:02, Updated on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:01 in section
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New Delhi: Moni Kumar Subba, a Congress MP, 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.
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.
A CNN-IBN Special Investigation team probing his roots has dug up evidence to show that in India, Subba began all of this by lying about his place of birth in the first place. In Lok Sabha records, Subba is perhaps the only MP to have two different places of birth.
The Subba dossier in the 12th Lok Sabha records his place of birth as Tezpur, Assam, his date of birth being March 16, 1951. But his dossier for the current (14th) Lok Sabha shows his place of birth as Dabgram (Darjeeling) in West Bengal, and the date of birth as March 16, 1958.
When the CNN-IBN Special Investigation team went to Dabgram to check the veracity of these records, it found nothing to confirm that it was Subba’s birthplace. In Assam, the CNN-IBN team tracked down Karma Kanu, who was Subba's third wife from 1978 to 1991. And Kanu has an entirely different story to tell.
"Hum to pehli baari sun raha hai ye naam. Dabgram to maine kabhi nahi suna hai. Agar vo Dabgram ka hai, to vahan par koi hona chahiye uska. Uska koi rishtedaar nahi hai vahan. (I have heard of this place for the first time. I never heard of this name before. If he belongs to Dabgram, there has to be someone who is related to him)," Kanu says.
Kanu now lives in Harmoti, a village in Lakhimpur district of Assam. Official documents mention Harmoti as Subba’s permanent residence as well.
Kanu met the CNN-IBN team secretly, clearly afraid to talk about Subba. "Jabardasti se to thoda darna bhi pardta hai na. Mein to Assam mein hai. Hai ki nahi? Yahan to koi bhi nahi hai mera (You have to be afraid of people who use force. I am in Assam, you see. And there is nobody here to help me)," she says.
In Delhi, when the CNN-IBN team approached Subba, he tried to play down these contradictions. And his reaction was recorded on a hidden camera.
The documents that nail Subba's lies:
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subba is a rich n influential mp , he will get away easily, he also owns a 5star hotel in
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Looks like, the government should start distributing the national Ids, starting from the MPs and MLA first.
But then who will
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It is not a problem with foreign originality but faking the documents is undigestable and for this he needs to
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Congratulations to CNN IBN for te excellent investigation and exposure. When CBI the investigation agency of the ruling UPA has
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this is the failuer of election comission who unable to verify the truthness of documens.
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