Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday refused to owe allegiance to India even as he applied for a passport here.
"By birth I am not Indian," Geelani said as he exited from the Passport Seva Kendra here.
Earlier, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said that the Ministry of Home Affairs has no objection in giving a passport to Geelani, provided all formalities are completed.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that an incomplete passport application was received from Geelani, and added that the application cannot be processed in its present form.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh had also said that if Geelani is granted permission to go abroad, he will have to follow the procedure like every other individual.
Geelani has applied for an Indian passport to go to Saudi Arabia and visit his ailing daughter.
Geelani's wife and son completed biometrics at the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Srinagar after they had applied online for their passports.
