Trinamool Congress (TMC) Mahua Moitra has been expelled from Lok Sabha in the cash-for-query case after the ethics panel submitted its report recommending her expulsion. She was expelled after a dialogue by the members of the Lower House on the panel’s report. The committee’s report has additionally advisable an intense, authorized investigation in the matter by the Government of India.
During the controversy, Opposition members together with Congress leaders Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Manish Tewari amongst others urged the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that Mahua Moitra shall be given a chance to current her views on the matter. However, the TMC MP was not allowed to talk.
Soon after her expulsion, Mahua Moitra hit out on the Modi authorities saying, “I am 49 years old, I will fight you for the next 30 years inside Parliament, outside Parliament.” She additional stated that that is the start of the top of the federal government.
“…If this Modi government thought that by shutting me up they could do away with the Adani issue, let me tell you this that this kangaroo court has only shown to all of India that the haste and the abuse of due process you have used demonstrates how important Adani is to you. And to what length you will go to harass a single woman MP into shutting her into submission…,” Moitra stated.
Earlier, Opposition members walked out of Lok Sabha amid voting in the House to expel Mahua Moitra for ‘unethical conduct’.
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