The ethics committee on Friday tabled a report in the House in which it recommended the expulsion of the TMC MP in a money-for-money case.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha over a ‘cash payment’ case.
The Ethics Committee tabled a report in the House on Friday in which it recommended the expulsion of the TMC MP in a case of “cash for query”.
The opposition staged a walkout before the motion presented by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi was adopted.
Reacting to his expulsion, Moitra said: “The ethics committee, without getting to the bottom of it, decided to hang me. He refused to call the businessman to testify and there is evidence of money or gifts being present. »
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She also called Parliament a “kangaroo court”.
#WATCH | Mahua Moitra, on his expulsion as a Lok Sabha member, said: “…If this Modi government thought that by silencing me it could solve the Adani problem, let me tell you that this kangaroo court has only shown all of India that haste and abuse… pic.twitter.com/DKBnnO4Q0d
-ANI (@ANI) December 8, 2023
During the Lok Sabha proceedings on Friday, another TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with “folded hands” to allow Moitra to speak before the vote, but this was refused .
Later, Om Birla explained why Mahua Moitra was not allowed to speak in the House.
“I have a copy of the traditions that were followed before. Former Presidents Somnath Chatterjee and Pranab Mukherjee were here earlier… The rules and traditions given by them are considered our rules. Somnath Chatterjee had said that members against whom charges are made are given sufficient time to speak before the committee… This House has the tradition that the traditions followed by previous Speakers are always followed by subsequent Speakers…,” the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. .
Mahua Moitra “money against request” case
Businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about the Adani Group, had claimed in a signed affidavit that Moitra had targeted industrialist Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a meeting on November 9, the Committee adopted its report recommending Moitra’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha over the allegation of ‘payment against request’.
Six members of the panel, including suspended Congresswoman Preneet Kaur, voted in favor of the report. Four panel members from opposition parties submitted notes of dissent.
Opposition members termed the report a “fake match” and said the complaint filed by BJP Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey, which the committee considered, was substantiated by “a shadow of evidence “.
Moitra can only be expelled if the House votes in favor of the panel’s recommendation.
With the contribution of agencies
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