In a major setback for Mahua Moitra, the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee adopted the 500-page report on cash-for-query allegations against the Trinamool MP, recommending her expulsion from the lower house of the Parliament with the support of six members. The ethics panel chief said that the six members of the committee supported the report, while four others opposed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aparajita Sarangi, Rajdeep Roy, Sumedhanand Saraswati, Preneet Kaur, Vinod Sonkar, and Hemant Godse supported the adoption of the report. Danish Ali, V Vaithilingam, PR Natarajan, Giridhari Yadav opposed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ethics committee led by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar, had earlier heard Mahua Moitra, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey who lodged the complaint against her and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai. Reportedly, the draft report had recommended the disqualification of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra from Lok Sabha owing to the ongoing probe in the alleged bribe-for-query case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the report was adopted, JD(U) MP Giridhari Yadav, who is a member of the panel, claimed that there was no discussion on the report among the members. Mentioning that the committee has only cross-questioned, the JD(U) MP said that they should have held a meeting with the members of the panel to discuss. Giridhari Yadav said that this is a gross violation of the rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In October, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey alleged that bribes were exchanged between Mahua Moitra and businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament in exchange for cash and gifts. Nishikant Dubey had also cited advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai’s letter which mentioned irrefutable evidence of the alleged exchange between Moitra and Hiranandani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nonetheless, Mahua Moitra has denied all the allegations and sent a legal notice to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Jai Anant Dehadrai stating the charges that she accepted any benefit of any kind to perform her duties as a Member of Lok Sabha were defamatory, false, baseless, and not supported by even a shred of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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