Cash for question row: Congress backs Mahua Moitra, says ‘whoever speaks against the industrialist...'
Rahul Gandhi’s suspension over the Modi surname defamation case, the Congress leader also said that whoever speaks against the industrialist becomes an enemy of the country. "When Rahul Gandhi too raised a question about that specific industrialist, action was taken against him," Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said. According to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's complaint to the Parliament Ethics Committee, Advocate Dehadrai had provided him proof of TMC MP Mahua Moitra's involvement in the alleged 'cash for query' scandal i.e., Mahua Moitra took money and gifts for asking questions on Gautam Adani that allegedly came from businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
In an affidavit, filed this morning, Darshan Hiranandani claimed Mahua Moitra even gave him her Parliament login credentials to post questions. In the affidavit, Darshan Hiranandani had admitted to “his friendship with the TMC MP Mahua Moitra and claimed that the Lok Sabha Member saw attacking the Adani group as a route to fame". “She became Lok Sabha MP in May 2019.
She was advised by her friends that the shortest route to fame was by attacking Narendra Modi. She thought that the only way to attack PM Modi was by attacking Gautam Adani and his group as they both come from Gujarat," the affidavit read. The affidavit claimed that Mahua Moitra made "frequent demands" such as "expensive luxury items, providing support on the renovation of her officially allotted bungalow in Delhi, travel expenses, holidays, apart from providing secretarial and logistical help for her travels within India and to different parts of the world." "When we go to Parliament, we go as people's representatives.
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