Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday (November 10) mentioned that she is going to return to the Parliament with an even bigger mandate in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a day after the Ethics Committee of the decrease House really useful her expulsion from the House within the ‘cash-for-query’ concern. She mentioned that the matter “just helped me double my 2024 winning margin”.
“Proud to go down in parliamentary history as 1st person to be unethically expelled by Ethics Comm whose mandate doesn’t include expulsion. 1st expel & THEN ask govt to ask CBI to find evidence. Kangaroo court, monkey business from start to finish,” Moitra posted on X, previously Twitter.
“Never Waste a Good Crisis they say…- this just helped me double my 2024 winning margin,” she added.
Ethics Committee motion
The Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha on Thursday (November 9) really useful the expulsion of the TMC MP, capping a fortnight of actions that included the deposition of three folks over three sittings.
Chaired by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar, the committee met within the nationwide capital and adopted its 479-page report which, based on sources, really useful Moitra’s expulsion. Six members of the panel supported the adoption of the report whereas 4 others opposed it, Sonkar mentioned.
The 4 opposition members mentioned the panel’s advice was “prejudiced” and “incorrect”, and mentioned businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who’s alleged to have given bribes to Moitra, ought to have been requested to depose earlier than the panel.
Hiranandani’s affidavit
He has solely filed an affidavit through which he alleged that the TMC MP focused Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He alleged that Moitra supplied him together with her Parliament login and password to ask questions focusing on Adani.
Mahua Moitra questioned the credibility of Hiranandani Group CEO Darshan Hiranandani’s affidavit and alleged that it was “drafted by the PMO” and he was compelled to signal it with the specter of a “complete shut down” of his household’s companies.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) pointed a “proverbial gun” to the CEO and his father’s heads and gave them a deadline of 20 minutes to signal the letter, Mahua claimed in her assertion issued late on October 19.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has accused Moitra of taking bribes from a businessman to ask questions in Parliament and urged Speaker Om Birla to represent an inquiry committee to look into the costs towards her. Birla then referred Dubey’s grievance to Parliament’s Ethics Committee.
(With PTI inputs)
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