How Subba hoodwink law enforcing agencies

SLAMMING SUBBA: BJP and Congress leaders say CNN-IBN's expose has shocked them.

        

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New Delhi: Moni Kumar Subba, the Congress MP from Tezpur, is a Nepali citizen who for 16 years has fooled authorities in India and managed to set up a business empire and hold public office in this country.

The testimonies of his relatives and friends confirm that Subba is a Nepalese citizen and documents with CNN-IBN show that he has lied about his age, place of birth and education.

Over the years, there have been allegations that Subba was convicted in Nepal and 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 and systematically erased his Nepali past. He first became an MLA in Assam and is now serving his second term in Parliament.

The Supreme Court, while hearing a petition challenging Subba’s claim to be an Indian, has given him time till April 20 to prove his Indian nationality. However, what's most embarrassing is that for close to three decades, he has held several high profile posts in the Government.

Just how did Subba hoodwink the law enforcing agencies and is there any premium on who is an Indian citizen in our country were some of the issues discussed by a panel comprising BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and senior Congress leader and Supreme Court lawyer R K Anand.

On fellow MP Subba
When asked if, as a Parliamentarian, he would now refuse to recognise an MP as Subba, BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “As a Parliamentarian and a political activist, I am embarrassed and hang my head in shame over the quality of Parliamentarians.”

While agreeing with Prasad that the revelations were indeed a matter of shame, Congress leader R K Anand pointed out, “When a person is held up in a corruption case, like Bangaru Laxman is, where was the BJP at that time?”