Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has approached the Supreme Court against taking away her Lok Sabha membership. It is worth noting that he was expelled by the Speaker of the House after he was surrounded by questions in the cash-for-exchange case and after the Ethics Committee presented its report in the Lok Sabha. TMC MPs have reached the Supreme Court against this.
It is noteworthy that Mahua Moitra has been accused of taking money and asking questions in Parliament. The Ethics Committee of Parliament, which was investigating these, had recommended the abolition of Mahua’s MP in the Lok Sabha. Later, based on the report, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expelled Mahua.
What allegations were made against Mahua?
Mahua was accused of asking questions in Parliament on behalf of industrialist Darshan Hiranandani in return for expensive gifts. Not only this, he is accused of having disclosed his parliamentary login ID and password to Hiranandani so that he could ask questions directly.
The matter was being looked into by the Ethics Committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar. In its meeting on November 9, the committee had accepted the report recommending the expulsion of Moitra from the Lok Sabha on the charges of taking money and asking questions in the House. Six members of the committee voted in favour of the report.
What allegation did Nishikant Dubey make?
Let us tell you that BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had accused Mahua. The allegation was that Mahua Moitra had taken bribes to ask questions in Parliament. There has been an uproar ever since this issue arose. Mahua’s Parliament membership was cancelled after the resolution was passed in the Lok Sabha today.
What does Mahua have to say on the allegations?
Earlier, Mahua herself had admitted before the Ethics Committee that she had shared her ID-password related to the portal for asking questions in Parliament. However, Mahua Moitra had earlier said in a statement that the allegations were based on lies, referring to her former partner Jai Ananth.
What does cash for query mean?
In general terms, Cash for query, is asking questions in the House by taking money. There is a process to it. When the proceedings of the Lok Sabha begin, the first hour is fixed and in Rajya Sabha, the time for asking questions is after 12 noon. This time is known as question period.
Through questions, public representatives convey information about their areas to the government or questions are also asked on issues of national importance, to which the minister of the department to which the question is related answers. To ask a question, the MP first gives a notice to the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha in which the question is mentioned.
