Mahua Moitra bribery scam: Ethics committee report sent to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla - sources- CMB College

Mahua Moitra bribery scam: Ethics committee report sent to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla – sources

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New Delhi:

TMC MP Mahua Moitra is at risk of becoming an MP for taking bribes and asking questions in Parliament (Cash for Queries). The Ethics Committee of the Parliament has sent the inquiry report in this matter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday. The committee has termed Mahua Moitra’s crime as serious. According to sources, the committee in its report has recommended cancellation of membership of Lok Sabha of Mahua Moitra. The report against Moitra was approved by the committee in Thursday’s meeting. 6 MPs voted in support of the report and 4 against.

NDA has majority as per constitution of ethics committee. The committee has a total of 15 members including the chairman. BJP has 7 members in the committee. Praneet Kaur (Congress), Hemant Godse (Shiv Sena), Sumedhanand (BJP), Aparajita Sarangi (BJP), Rajdeep Roy (BJP) and Vinod Kumar Sonkar (BJP and Chairman) voted in favor of the inquiry report in the Mahua Moitra bribery case. Case.. while BSP MP Danish Ali, PR Natarajan (CPM), Vaithilingam (Congress), Girdhari Yadav (JDU) opposed it.

Speaker will take decision in Moitra’s case
After the approval of the report, Chairman of the Ethics Committee Vinod Kumar Sonkar said, “After the inquiry into the allegations against Mahua Moitra, the Ethics Committee prepared a report. This was the only agenda of today’s meeting. The report was presented in this meeting.” It was done and adopted. The facts and findings arrived at by the committee after investigation. Now, any further action to be taken in this matter will be taken by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.”

The ethics committee said that there should be a legal, intensive, institutional and time-bound investigation into the entire matter. It is also recommended to investigate Mahua Moitra’s cash transactions with businessman Darshan Hirananda.

Recommending severe punishment for Mahua
The Ethics Committee made national security the most important basis in its recommendation. In its recommendation, the committee has said that Mahua Moitra shared the log-in details of her parliamentary account with unauthorized persons, affecting national security. The committee termed this as a serious offense and therefore recommended the dismissal of Mahua Moitra as a member of the Lok Sabha. On the allegations of sharing log-in ID and password, the Ethics Committee has said that Mahua should be severely punished for this serious crime.

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