The political storm over BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s “cash-for-query” allegation against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra intensified, with Ms. Moitra serving a legal notice to Mr. Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai who supplied the alleged evidence against her.
Union Minister of State for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, was among several BJP leaders who spoke out against Ms. Moitra, saying, “If true, this is indeed shocking and shameful.” The Adani Group also issued a statement, which said the latest allegations corroborate their stand that “groups and individuals have been working overtime to harm its name and market standing.”
Meanwhile, stepping up the pressure, Mr. Dubey has written a letter to the Union Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw demanding an inquiry committee against Ms. Moitra to ascertain if she shared her Lok Sabha login credentials with an “external entity”. Defending herself, Ms. Moitra said that all the parliamentary work of the MPs is done by personal assistants, interns, and large teams. She urged Mr. Vaishnaw to release the “details of location and login details of all MPs with Call Detail Records (CDRs)”.
