Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra- PTI
The Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha on Thursday Committee adopted its report on ‘cash-for-query’ allegations in opposition to Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and beneficial her expulsion from the Home, information company PTI reported quoting sources.
The cash-for-query allegations involving Moitra surfaced final month after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote two letters – one to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, claiming there have been allegations that Moitra took bribes to guard the curiosity of the Hiranandani Group; and the opposite to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to analyze the IP addresses of Moitra’s log-in credentials for Lok Sabha to verify if they’d been accessed by another person.
“The Ethics Committee had prepared a report regarding the allegations on Mahua Moitra. Today’s single agenda was to adopt that report. The report has been adopted, in which six members supported it and four voted against it,” stated BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar.
In the meantime, BSP MP Danish Ali on Thursday accused Ethics Committee chairman Vinod Kumar Sonkar and BJP members of leaking the proceedings of the panel in violation of guidelines within the cash-for-query allegation in opposition to TMC’s Mahua Moitra.
Speaking to reporters whereas on solution to attend the assembly of the committee which is going down to undertake a report in opposition to Moitra within the cash-for-query allegation, Ali stated in violation of the foundations, Sonkar and BJP members of panel leaked particulars of the proceedings.
Sources informed PTI the committee can be anticipated to underline its unhappiness on the conduct of some opposition members throughout its proceedings and make a point out of it in its suggestions to the Home. They stated the committee might make a advice in opposition to Ali, who was loudest in his assault on Sonkar’s “indecent and personal” inquiries to Moitra.
Sonkar had described the conduct of members like Ali and JD (U)’s Giridhari Yadav as unethical. The 15-member committee has seven members from the BJP, three from the Congress, and one every from BSP, Shiv Sena, YSRCP, CPI(M) and JDU.