The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on Friday tabled its report on Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra’s cash-for-query case, recommending that she needs to be expelled from the Lower House. The panel has additionally really helpful for an investigation by the Government of India in time certain method into this case.
The ethics panel report reads:
- The critical misdemeanours on the a part of Mahua Moitra name for extreme punishment. The Committee, subsequently, advocate that Mahua Moitra, MP could also be expelled from the Membership of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha.
- In view of the extremely objectionable, unethical, heinous and legal conduct of Mahua Moitra, the Committee recommends for an intense, authorized, institutional inquiry by the Government of India in a time-bound method.
Meanwhile, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla after the panel report was tabled in the House. Â
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned, “I would request that Members may be given sufficient time of 3-4 days at least to study the report and prepare themselves for the discussion in the House. I would therefore request you to fix a day and time at least 3 days from now, for taking up the discussion in the Ethics Committee Report.”
As quickly because the House met once more after the adjournment until midday, the Opposition members raised slogans in opposition to the federal government.
The Trinamool Congress MPs raised slogans in opposition to the federal government and the BJP. They raised slogans like ‘taanashahi band karo’, ‘Bharat ki beti ka apmaan nahi sahenge’.
Rajendra Agrawal, who was in the Chair in the House, requested the Trinamool Congress members to sit down because the report had solely been tabled in the House. However, the Trinamool Congress members stored on elevating slogans in the House.
Following the ruckus, the Speaker adjourned the House until 2 pm.
What is the cost in opposition to Mahua Moitra?
Moitra is going through the cost of alleged ‘money for Parliament questions’. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had referred the criticism of BJP MP Nishiknat Dubey in opposition to Moitra to the Ethics Committee.
On November 9, the Parliament’s Ethics Committee adopted the draft report in opposition to Moitra in reference to the fees of alleged ‘cash for Parliament questions’ and submitted it to the Lok Sabha Speaker with the panel’s suggestions.
On November 2, Moitra together with the opposition MPs of the Committee stormed out of the assembly accusing the committee’s chairperson Vinod Sonkar of asking her private and unethical questions.
On October 26, Dubey and advocate Dehadrai gave “oral evidence” to the panel in opposition to Moitra.
With inputs from IANS
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