Expel Mahua Moitra From Lok Sabha, Conduct Intensive Inquiry: Ethics Committee Recommends

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress’s Mahua Moitra should not be allowed to continue as  an MP and her membership should be terminated, the parliamentary

The Ethics Committee examining the cash-for-questions allegations against Mahua Moitra has recommended that she should not be allowed to continue as an MP and her membership be terminated.

The Parliamentary panel’s 500-page report, accessed by NDTV, has also recommended that a legal, intensive, institutional and time-bound investigation be conducted by the Central government.

“The money trail of cash transaction between Smt Mahua Moitra and (businessman) Shri Darshan Hiranandani as part of a ‘quid pro quo’ should be investigated by the government of India in a legal, institutional and time-bound manner,” the report stated.

The report will be submitted to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla during the Winter session of Parliament.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, the man who had brought up the allegations against Moitra, stated earlier on Wednesday that anti-corruption body Lokpal has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into corruption charges against Moitra.

Dubey had alleged that Moitra took cash from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament on his behalf targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business rival Adani Group.