Just helped me double 2024 winning margin: Mahua Moitra on Ethics panel report
TMC MP also slams businessman Gautam Adani accusing him of spreading rumours that she will lose the TMC ticket for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday (November 10) said she will be back with a bigger mandate in 2024, a day after the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee recommended her expulsion from the House in the "cash-for-query" matter.
"Proud to go down in parliamentary history as 1st person to be unethically expelled by Ethics Comm whose mandate doesn't include expulsion. 1st expel & THEN ask govt to ask CBI to find evidence. Kangaroo court, monkey business from start to finish," she said in a post on X.
"Never Waste a Good Crisis they say... - this just helped me double my 2024 winning margin," Moitra said.
In another angry post, the TMC MP to a swipe at industrialist Gautam Adani.
“Also Mr Adani – don’t waste your time telling everyone “Mahua’s ticket will be cut”. Only thing that will be cut is your market capitalization as your house cards unravels. Like I said I will stand from Krishnanagar & double my margin,” he said.
The Ethics Committee on Thursday (November 9) recommended Moitra's expulsion, capping a fortnight of actions that included the deposition of three people over three sittings.
The committee, chaired by BJP Lok Sabha member Vinod Kumar Sonkar, adopted its 479-page report which, according to sources, recommended Moitra's expulsion, possibly the first such action against an MP by the panel.
Sonkar told reporters that six members of the panel supported the adoption of the report and four opposed it.
The four opposition members said the panel's recommendation was “prejudiced” and “incorrect”, and said businessman Darshan Hiranandani, who is alleged to have given bribes to Moitra, should have been asked to depose before the panel. He has only filed an affidavit.
(With inputs from agencies)
