Mahua Moitra won't appear before Parliament Panel for 'cash-for-query' case hearing: Here's why
Cash-for-query case: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra requests the Lok Sabha ethics panel to give her any date after November 5 to appear in person. Moitra says she cannot depose before the ethics panel on Oct 31 due to pre-scheduled engagements.
Hinting at the failure to follow official procedure, the TMC MP said that the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel had published her summon on ‘Live TV’ even before the official letter was emailed to her. Explaining her reasons on not being able to attend to the 31 October date, the TMC MP said that she had ‘pre- scheduled constituency programmes’, and sought a date post 4 November to make an in-person appearance.
Mahua Moitra took to microblogging site ‘X’ and wrote, “Chairman, Ethics Comm announced my 31/10 summons on live TV way before official letter emailed to me at 19:20 hrs. All complaints & suo moto affidavits also released to media.
I look forward to deposing immediately after my pre- scheduled constituency programmes end on Nov 4." The Lok Sabha Ethics Panel has summoned TMC MP Mahua Moitra on 31 October in relation to the cash-for-query allegations that were leveled against her by Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nishikant Dubey. BJP leader Dubey had told the parliamentary panel that it was an "open and shut" case and that TMC MP Mahua Moitra should be disqualified.
On Thursday, Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai gave "oral evidence" to the Lok Sabha panel against the Trinamool Congress MP during the day, after which its chairperson Vinod Kumar Sonkar said the committee will also seek assistance from the Ministries of Home Affairs and IT in probing the allegations. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla dated 15 October, BJP leader Nioshikant Dubey said advocate
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