Mahua Moitra case: The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee meeting which was to undertake a draft report on allegations concerning cash-for-query case towards TMC MP Mahua Moitra has been postponed to November 9, a discover from Lok Sabha secretariat. The date for the meeting had earlier been set on November 7.Â
No motive has been formally cited for rescheduling the meeting. The convening of the meeting for adopting the draft report implies that the committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar has completed its enquiry and can now be making its advice after its members ranged alongside social gathering traces of their final deliberations on November 2.
The BJP members are in a majority within the 15-member committee which is probably going to take a grim view of the costs towards Moitra, extra so after she accused Sonkar of asking filthy and private questions to her within the final meeting earlier than strolling out in a rage together with opposition members. There are indications the committee might make a advice towards her in its report to Speaker Om Birla amid a risk of dissent notes from opposition members.
All 5 opposition members had stormed out of the November 2 meeting, alleging that Sonkar requested private and indecent questions to her concerning her travels, resort keep and phone calls. She later alleged that she was subjected to a “proverbial vastraharan” within the meeting.
The committee chairperson dismissed opposition members’ claims as a case of unethical conduct geared toward shielding her. The resolution of Moitra, who appeared earlier than the panel as a topic of enquiry and thus lacked the privileges bestowed on its members, to stroll out of the meeting is probably going to be taken up critically by the committee in its report.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has accused Moitra of asking questions within the Lok Sabha to goal the Adani Group on the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in change for bribes. He mentioned it was Hiranandani who used her login to file questions from completely different locations, largely Dubai.Â
Moitra has admitted that he used her login particulars however has rejected any pecuniary issues, asserting that the majority MPs share their login credentials with others.
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