Former TMC leader slaps legal notice on Suvendu Adhikari over remark on citizenship status

Vinay Mishra, former TMC youth wing general secretary, who is facing an investigation by the CBI, has sent a legal notice to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.

Vinay Mishra, former TMC youth wing general secretary, who is facing an investigation by the CBI in the cattle and coal smuggling cases, has sent a legal notice to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari through his lawyer stating that he had falsely shared wrong information on Mishra's citizenship status. On June 11, Suvendu Adhikari had said in a tweet that Mishra was made the TMC youth wing general secretary in 2020 when he was not a citizen of India. Suvendu Adhikari claimed that Mishra had taken citizenship of Vanuatu, an Island in South Pacific, in 2018. "In year 2018 Vinay Mishra seems to be a Citizen of VANUATU and renouncing Indian citizenship. In year 2020 the same person is made the General Secretary of TMC Youth wing. Drawing the kind attention of ECI, does Indian law permit a foreigner to be a part of a political party?" wrote Suvendu Adhikari on Twitter.