The ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Tuesday served a notice to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and has asked him to clarify within a fortnight his “factual position” on a complaint questioning his citizenship status.

In a letter, the Union home ministry said it has received a representation from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in which it has been brought out that a company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in 2003 with Rahul as one of its directors.

The ministry said Swamy's letter mentioned that in the British company's annual returns filed on October 10, 2005, and October 31, 2006, Rahul's date of birth is stated as June 19, 1970, and that he had declared his nationality as British.

'Further, in the dissolution application dated February 17, 2009, of the above referred company, your nationality has been mentioned as British. You are requested to intimate the factual position in the matter to this Ministry within a fortnight of the receipt of this communication,' the Union home ministry notice said.