By Online Desk
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has been voted out by the Lok Sabha for ‘unethical conduct’ over the cash-for-query matter, on Friday noon. This decision means she may lose her MP status.
Opposition members have staged a walkout from the House which has been adjourned. It had been adjourned in the morning, too, following uproar from Parliamentarians over the issue.
Moitra slammed the move by the “kangaroo court”, while answering queries by media outside Parliament House. She pointed out that the ethics panel had not summoned the businessman who raised the allegations against her, adding that the Modi government “can’t shut her up on the Adani issue.”
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had approached the Lokpal on October 21 with a complaint against Moitra over allegations of accepting bribes to raise questions in Parliament. Dubey had cited Supreme Court lawyer and Moitra’s estranged partner Jai Anant Dehadrai’s letter which mentioned “irrefutable evidence” of the alleged exchange between Moitra and Hiranandani.
Businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about the Adani Group, had claimed in a signed affidavit that the TMC MP from Krishnanagar targeted industrialist Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Moitra has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and claimed that she was being targeted as she had raised questions on the deals of the Adani group.
Opposition INDIA bloc leaders on Friday questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”.
The report was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday amid an uproar by opposition MPs who questioned the procedure followed by the panel and demanded a discussion on the report.
The Ethics Committee report recommended that Moitra “may be expelled” from the Lok Sabha and called for an “intense, legal, institutional inquiry” by the central government in a “time-bound manner”.
On Friday, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had written to Speaker Om Birla urging him to postpone the debate on the Ethics Committee report on Mahua Moitra to enable members to prepare for a discussion on it.
Chowdhury said the matter was urgent and important and the members should get sufficient time to prepare themselves as the report is over 100 pages and exhaustive.
However, the Speaker has initiated a debate on the report.
Background
At a meeting on November 9, the committee adopted its report recommending Moitra’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha over the “cash-for-query” allegation.
The report had revealed that she visited the UAE four times from 2019 to 2023 while her login was accessed several times.
Moitra had appeared before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on November 2. Along with opposition members of the panel, she had walked out of the meeting.
Six members of the panel, including suspended Congress member Preneet Kaur, voted in favour of the report. Four members of the panel belonging to opposition parties submitted dissent notes.
The Committee has recommended an investigation by the government into the ‘money trail’ of cash transactions between Moitra and Hiranandani as a part of ‘quid pro quo’.
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Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has been voted out by the Lok Sabha for ‘unethical conduct’ over the cash-for-query matter, on Friday noon. This decision means she may lose her MP status.
Opposition members have staged a walkout from the House which has been adjourned. It had been adjourned in the morning, too, following uproar from Parliamentarians over the issue.
Moitra slammed the move by the “kangaroo court”, while answering queries by media outside Parliament House. She pointed out that the ethics panel had not summoned the businessman who raised the allegations against her, adding that the Modi government “can’t shut her up on the Adani issue.”googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had approached the Lokpal on October 21 with a complaint against Moitra over allegations of accepting bribes to raise questions in Parliament. Dubey had cited Supreme Court lawyer and Moitra’s estranged partner Jai Anant Dehadrai’s letter which mentioned “irrefutable evidence” of the alleged exchange between Moitra and Hiranandani.
Businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about the Adani Group, had claimed in a signed affidavit that the TMC MP from Krishnanagar targeted industrialist Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Moitra has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and claimed that she was being targeted as she had raised questions on the deals of the Adani group.
Opposition INDIA bloc leaders on Friday questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”.
The report was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday amid an uproar by opposition MPs who questioned the procedure followed by the panel and demanded a discussion on the report.
The Ethics Committee report recommended that Moitra “may be expelled” from the Lok Sabha and called for an “intense, legal, institutional inquiry” by the central government in a “time-bound manner”.
On Friday, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had written to Speaker Om Birla urging him to postpone the debate on the Ethics Committee report on Mahua Moitra to enable members to prepare for a discussion on it.
Chowdhury said the matter was urgent and important and the members should get sufficient time to prepare themselves as the report is over 100 pages and exhaustive.
However, the Speaker has initiated a debate on the report.
Background
At a meeting on November 9, the committee adopted its report recommending Moitra’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha over the “cash-for-query” allegation.
The report had revealed that she visited the UAE four times from 2019 to 2023 while her login was accessed several times.
Moitra had appeared before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on November 2. Along with opposition members of the panel, she had walked out of the meeting.
Six members of the panel, including suspended Congress member Preneet Kaur, voted in favour of the report. Four members of the panel belonging to opposition parties submitted dissent notes.
The Committee has recommended an investigation by the government into the ‘money trail’ of cash transactions between Moitra and Hiranandani as a part of ‘quid pro quo’.
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