The Lok Sabha on Friday expelled Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra over cash-for-query allegations after a motion based on an ethics committee report. Moitra has been accused of misusing her credentials, accepting gifts, and of favours for businessman Darshan Hiranandani, a competitor of industrialist Gautam Adani.
While opposition MPs called this report tabled by the panel’s chairman Vinod Kumar Sonkar a “fixed match”, and the Trinamool sought a minimum of 48 hours to review the report, the government proceeded with the resolution that led to Moitra’s expulsion post-lunch. The opposition argued that the complaint by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accusing Moitra of breach of parliamentary privileges had lacked substantial evidence.
