‘Cash for Query’ case: Mahua Moitra responds to Darshan Hiranandani's affidavit. Full text

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Darshan Hiranandani 'forced to sign a white paper': TMC MP Mahua Moitra on 'Cash for Query' allegations He then claimed that Moitra saw attacking the Adani group as a route to fame. Hiranandani then claims that Mahua Moitra did share her Parliament Login credentials with him. The business tycoon added that he used the TMC MP's login credentials to pose questions on the Adani group himself.

Also read: TMC MP Mahua Moitra files defamation case against BJP's Nishikant Dubey amid furore over ‘cash for queries’ claim Following Hiranadani's 3-page signed affidavit, the TMC MP alleged that "he was forced to sign a white paper." "Three days ago (16.10.2023), the Hiranandani Group put out an official press release stating that all charges leveled against them were baseless. Today (19.10.2023) an “approver affidavit“ has been leaked to the press. This “affidavit" is on a white piece of paper with no letterhead and there is no official origin aside from a press leak. A few questions need to be asked urgently: 1. Darshan Hiranandani has not been summoned by the CBI or the Ethics committee or indeed by any investigative agency yet. Who then has he given this affidavit to? 2. The affidavit is on white paper and not on official letterhead or notarised. Why would one of India’s most respected/ educated businessman sign a letter like this on white paper unless a gun was put to his head to do it? 3. The contents of the letter are a joke. It has clearly been drafted by some half-wit in the PMO who doubles up as a creative writer in the BJP’s IT cell. It sings paeans to Modi and Gautam Adani while linking in every opponent of theirs to me and my alleged corruption. Shardul Shroff is the brother of Cyril Shroff who has had a bitter