Ethics panel summons TMC leader Mahua Moitra in cash-for-query row on October 31

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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has been summoned by the Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha on October 31 to record their statements in connection with the cash-for-query allegations against her.

The summons comes on the day when BJP leader Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai appeared before the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha on Thursday to record their statements in connection with the case against the TMC MP.

After appearing before the parliamentary panel, Dehadrai told reporters, “I have told the truth before the Committee. All members of the committee enquired from me cordially. I answered to all that was asked from me.”

Earlier, Mahua Moitra had said that she “welcomed answering questions” from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee, noting that it had “absolute majority of BJP members”.

“I welcome answering questions to CBI and Ethics Committee (which has absolute majority of BJP members) if and when they call me,” Moitra wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

In his complaint to Speaker Om Birla, Dubey has cited documents shared by Dehadrai to back his cash-for-query allegations against the TMC MP. He also wrote to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to investigate the IP addresses of Moitra’s log-in credentials for Lok Sabha to check if they had been accessed by someone else.

In the letter to Birla dated October 15, Dubey said the advocate, close to Moitra before they fell out, has shared “irrefutable evidence of bribes exchanged” between her and businessman Darshan Hiranandani, CEO of Hiranandani Group, to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The fiery TMC member dismissed the charges as a “jilted ex’s lies”, a reference to Dehadrai, and accused the Adani Group of being behind them to target her as she has been relentless in raising questions on the conglomerate’s practices and transactions.

In a signed affidavit, Hiranandani who allegedly paid her to raise questions in Parliament, said the TMC leader targeted Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Modi whose impeccable reputation gave the opposition no opportunity to attack him.