New Delhi: According to a new revelation, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra’s Parliament login ID was not just accessed from Dubai, but also from New Jersey, the United States, and Bengaluru, India Today reported quoting sources privy to the ongoing cash-for-query row.
In an exclusive interview with India Today earlier, Moitra admitted to sharing her Parliament login ID and password with businessman Darshan Hiranandani, to enable someone in his office to type in the questions she would ask in Lok Sabha.
However, now sources from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) have said that her login credentials were used from New Jersey and Bengaluru as well when the TMC MP was in Kolkata and then in Delhi on the same day, the report added,
Moitra had said that though she shared her Parliament login details with Hiranandani, the businessman did not log in on his own to post questions.
“Someone in Darshan Hiranandani’s office typed the question, which I gave on the Parliament website. After putting the question, they would call me to inform, and I would read all the questions in one go as I am always busy in my constituency. After putting the question, an OTP (one-time password) comes on my mobile phone. I would give that OTP and only then is the question submitted. So, the idea that Darshan would log in to my ID and put in questions of his own is ludicrous,” the TMC MP had told India Today.
Notably, the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee has recommended that she be expelled as a Lok Sabha MP.
The ethics panel, headed by Chairman Vinod Kumar Sonkar, submitted its report on the allegations against Moitra to Speaker Om Birla’s office earlier this month. It was adopted by a majority in the Committee, accusing her of accepting “illegal gratifications” to raise questions in Parliament at the behest of Darshan Hiranandani.
The TMC MP, however, has refuted the allegations against her, calling them “defamatory, false, baseless, and not supported by even a shred of evidence”.
