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New Delhi: Mahua Moitra of the Trinamool Congress was expelled on Friday after a heated discussion on the report of the ethics committee in the ‘cash for query’ that was tabled in the Lower House. The ethics committee found her guilty of accepting gifts and unlawful favours from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to advance his interests. Reacting on the expulsion of the TMC leader, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday stated that the expulsion of a parliamentarian for corruption and on the issue of national security gives him pain. “it was not a happy day, but a sad day,” he said.
#WATCH | BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on expulsion of TMC leader Mahua Moitra from Parliament
“The expulsion of a parliamentarian for corruption and on the issue of national security gives me pain. Yesterday, it was not a happy day, but a sad day.” pic.twitter.com/DZoZei5AqF
— ANI (@ANI) December 9, 2023
Notably, Dubey himself levelled the cash-for-question allegation against Moitra. He raised the issue and drew the Speaker’s attention on it two months ago. This was the first reaction of the BJP MP after the TMC leader’s expulsion.
For the past two months, Dubey and Moitra were slamming each other on X (formerly Twitter). She accused the BJP MP of facing his degree, the fight continued after the Lok Sabha ethics committee initiated a probe to check whether the allegations levelled by Nishikant Dubey against Mahua Moitra were right or wrong.
Following Moitra’s expulsion, Nishikant Dubey refrained from posting any tweets. Similarly, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, who had lodged a complaint with Dubey, alleging that Mahua Moitra shared her Parliament login with industrialist Darshan Hiranandani to pose questions on Gautam Adani, did not make any public statements.
Allegations were made that Mahua accepted cash and gifts in return for the favour, which the former Trinamool leader denied. However, she accepted sharing the login with Hiranandani to seek assistance from his office in inputting the questions into the portal.
The ethics committee questioned Jai Anant Dehadrai, Mahua Moitra and Nishikant Dubey and made a report that recommended Moitra’s expulsion from the lower house. Notably, there are footprints of 47 logins to Mahua’s parliamentary account from Dubai, it was alleged.
On December 8, Mahua Moitra was held guilty following a debate in the Lok Sabha on the report of the ethics committee.
“Consequent on the adoption of a Motion by the Lok Sabha on the 8th December, 2023 expelling Smt. Mahua Moitra, an elected member from the Krishnanagar Parliamentary Constituency of West Bengal from the membership of Lok Sabha, Smt. Mahua Moitra has ceased to be a member of Lok Sabha with effect from the 8th December, 2023 afternoon,” the Lok Sabha secretariat notified on Friday evening.
Mahua Moitra’s removal from the Lok Sabha has become a unifying moment for Indian political parties, with unanimous condemnation of the way the Lok Sabha debate concluded upon adopting the resolution. Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee stated that the party stands firmly behind Mahua Moitra.
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