Subramanian Swamy calls for global fight against ISIS

A day after terrorists attacked Brussels killing over 30 people, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said India should join other countries to fight terrorism.

"We should retaliate and must be ready to join other countries to fight ISIS," he told ANI here.

"The ISIS is not like any other terrorist organisation. It controls a territory and no other terrorist organisation has such a large territory as ISIS," he added.

Swamy said that the Indian Army has the best manpower, adding it is better than the American Army.

Swamy added, "India is the only country which they controlled for 80 years and still we have 80% Hindu population. India is an unfinished chapter for the Islamic history and we have prevented them from settling down. So, they are using social media to recruit poor people of Muslim community from India."

At least 13 people have lost their lives while 35 others seriously injured following the suspected terrorist attack at the Brussels airport yesterday.

Two explosions reportedly shook the building shortly after 8 a.m. local time, leaving the passengers terrified.

The incident took place four days after the arrest of Paris attack mastermind Salah Abdeslam from the Belgian capital.

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'Will Deal With It': Rahul Gandhi Says On Notice On British Citizenship Row

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, asked by an ethics panel to explain whether he once declared himself a British citizen on the legal papers of a company in the UK, said today on the notice: "We will deal with that."

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan reportedly referred a complaint by lawmaker Mahesh Giri to the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha, which is led by senior BJP leader LK Advani.

The 11-member committee has sent notice to Mr Gandhi asking him to respond to the "complaint of ethical misconduct given by Subramanian Swamy and forwarded by Mahesh Giri".

Congress leaders have accused the Speaker of bypassing "the process of natural justice" by not asking Mr Gandhi for his version first.

The British citizenship controversy engulfed the Congress in November when Subramanian Swamy, a BJP leader, said that he had accessed documents to show that Mr Gandhi claimed British nationality to set up a company in the UK.

The Congress leader was the director and secretary of the company, according to the documents that Mr Swamy said he had extracted from the company law authorities of Britain. The documents showed that Mr Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of UK-based "Backops Limited" in 2005 and 2006.

The Congress released another document of the same company, in which Mr Gandhi had declared himself Indian. The party also described as a "typing error" the discrepancy between the document and the British government's records.

Mr Gandhi, 45, rejected allegations of impropriety and dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to jail him if he was proven guilty.

The ethics committee has the power to expel a lawmaker. The Congress says the inquiry against their vice president is just a formality, that there is "nothing incriminating" against him.

"The Ethics Committee has to dismiss such a frivolous complaint," said senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. 

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