Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Friday was expelled from the Lok Sabha on the recommendation of the Ethics Committee of the Parliament. Mahua Moitra was facing serious charges of 'cash for query' for deliberately targeting the Modi Government linking them with Gautam Adani. The development came soon after a Ethics Committee report on the cash-for-query row was tabled before the Lok Sabha. Opposition members had walked out of the Upper House of Parliament as the decision was announced.
Mahua Moitra's suspension comes almost a month after she was summoned by the Parliament Ethics Committee after Darshan Hiranandani corroborated BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's allegations that she gave her Parliament login ID to Hiranandani to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Parliament. After a few hours of questioning, Mahua Moitra stormed out of the building and accused ethics panel chairperson Vinod Kumar Sonkar of asking her 'indecent personal questions'.
Notably, Sonkar on Friday tabled the Ethics Committee findings in the Parliament recommending that Mahua must be expelled from the Lok Sabha.
Reacting to this, Mahua Moitra outside the parliament said, "I am 49 years old, I will fight you for the next 30 years inside Parliament, outside Parliament...Ethics committee without getting to the root of this case has decided to hang me. No evidence of any cash or gifts anywhere. No rules to govern the sharing of parliamentary login."