The Congress yesterday stated that the victory of its president Sonia Gandhi from Amethi and Bellary Lok Sabha constituencies had made the `ban foreign-origin persons from high posts issue' irrelevant.
"People of Bellary and Amethi have already given a verdict against this, and people's court is the ultimate court", Congress spokesman Ajit Jogi said yesterday.
He was reacting to the statement of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu that the Constitution Review Commission should seriously examine banning persons of foreign origin from occupying high positions of the country like the Prime Minister of India, the President of India and the Chief Justice of India. Naidu had said this while addressing an election rally in Haryana in favour of the candidates of the National Democratic Alliance.
Before Naidu, Commission member P A Sangma had said that he would surely raise the issue of adding provisions in the Constitution to ban persons of foreign origin from occupying high positions. Sangma's inclusion was opposed by the Congress on the ground that his views were prejudiced.
Sangma had been expelled from the Congress when he, along with Sharad Pawar, demanded in the Congress Working Committee that Sonia Gandhi should declare that she would not become the Prime Minister of the country owing to her Italian
origin.
After the constitution of the Commission was announced by Prime Minister's information advisor, H K Dua, revealing that Sangma was part of the Commission, Congress President Sonia Gandhi had come out strongly against the review exercise.
