The correct answer is voluntarily acquired citizenship of another country.

• No person shall be a citizen of India if he has voluntarily acquired citizenship of another country.

• Articles 5-11 in Part II of the Indian Constitution deals with Citizenship.
• The Citizenship Act, 1955, provides for the acquisition of Indian citizenship in the following ways:
  • Generally, every person born in India on or after January 1950 shall be a citizen of India or either of his parents was a citizen of India at the time of his birth.
  • A person who was outside India on or after 26 January; 1950, shall be a citizen of India by descent if his father was a citizen of India at the time of that person’s birth.
  • A person residing in India for more than seven years can seek citizenship by naturalisation.
  • If any new territory becomes a part of India, the persons of the territory become citizens of Indian.
• Citizenship of India may be lost by:
  • Renunciation of citizenship.
  • Termination of citizenship, if a citizen of India voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country.
  • Deprivation of citizenship by the Government of India.

• Single citizenship was adopted from the Constitution of Britain.