Akshay Kumar Renounces Canada Citizenship, Gets Back Indian Citizenship

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar on Tuesday announced that he has got back his Indian citizenship after renouncing Canadian citizenship.

On Twitter, he shared a document with a caption: "Dil aur citizenship, dono Hindustani. Happy Independence Day! Jai Hind! 🇮🇳." It also shows his full name as Akshay Hariom Bhatia.

A section of netizens had often criticised the Bollywood actor for having Canadian citizenship. "Having a Canadian passport does not mean I am any less of an Indian. I am very much Indian. I have been here since last nine years when I got the passport. And I don't want to get into the reason of why, what happened, my films were not working, blah blah blah, chalo woh theek hai," Hindustan Times quoted him as saying at an earlier event.

The Constitution of India does not allow holding Indian citizenship and citizenship of a foreign country simultaneously.

Akshay, who is basking in the success of his latest flick 'OMG 2', had applied to renounce his Canada citizenship, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the process.

"Yes, I had said it in 2019, I applied for it. Then uske baad pandemic aagaya. Uske 2-2.5 saal sab kuch band hogaya. Renounce ka abhi mera letter aagaya hai (Then the pandemic happened and everything shut down for 2-2.5 years. My renounce letter is here) and very soon my whole passport will be coming." He added, "Main kya karu, maine thodi pandemic laya hai (What do I do. I didn't bring the pandemic)."