Ethics panel recommendation to expel Mahua Moitra political vendetta: TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Trinamool Congress leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay Friday described the Ethics Committee's recommendation to expel party MP Mahua Moitra in a «cash-for-query» allegation as «political vendetta» and claimed that it was aimed at stopping her from raising issues against the Adani Group. Bandyopadhyay said he had a one-on-one meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who informed him that the report would be tabled along with a resolution.
He told the Speaker that Moitra should be given time to make her speech on the floor of the house to which Birla replied that half an hour would be given for discussion on the matter.
Bandyopadhyay asked why was the MP who alleged that Moitra was paid cash for asking questions not called to the Ethics Committee meeting.
«The first meeting (of the ethics panel) ended in a short time and could not produce any result. Why was a second meeting not held? Why such a hurry?» he posed.
- All
- Madhya Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- Telangana
- Chhattisgarh
- Mizoram
Zoram People's Movement leader Lalduhoma sworn in as Mizoram CM
Grand oath-taking ceremony for Telangana's new Chief Minister Revanth Reddy to host several dignitaries; here's who was invited
Ahead of oath-taking, Telangana CM-designate Revanth Reddy arrives in Hyderabad after meeting Congress high command
Amid tight fiscal, Revanth Reddy, as CM of Telangana, tasked with delivering 'six' guarantees
- Businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who allegedly paid Moitra to raise questions in Parliament about the Adani Group, had claimed in a signed affidavit that Moitra targeted industrialist Gautam Adani to «malign and embarrass» Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At a meeting on November 9, the ethics committee headed by
