Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra, who is currently facing charges related to "cash for Parliament questions," directed her criticism towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday. She warned the BJP against trying to discredit its women MPs with false narratives and asserted that she possesses an accurate transcript of the proceedings in the Ethics Committee, implying that she has evidence to counter any allegations made against her.
In a post on X, Moitra, the MP from West Bengal's Krishnanagar said: "Shaking in my skin to know BJP planning criminal cases against me. Welcome them - only know that CBI and ED need to file FIR against Adani for Rs 13,000 crore coal scam before they question how many pairs of shoes I have."
"Also BJP - before you push out women MPs with fake narrative remember I have exact transcript of record in Ethics Committee verbatim. Chairman’s cheap sordid irrelevant questions, Opposition’s protests, my protests - all there in official black and white," she said.
Her remarks came after Ethics Committe chief Vinod Kumar Sonkar had accused Moitra of not answering the questions of the panel and instead, "getting angry" at him and the committee.
Moitra, along with opposition members of the ethics panel, stormed out of the meeting on November 2, accusing the Committee's Chairperson of asking her "personal and unethical" questions.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who had complained against Moitra to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took a pot shot at the Trinamool Congress leader, saying: "I have now gone fond of the honesty of Mahua (accused MP). She left Adani for (Darshan) Hiranandani?"
On Wednesday, Moitra had written to the Committee demanding to cross examine complainant Jai Anant Dehadrai and businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
The Ethics Committee is currently conducting an investigation into the allegations made by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who claims that Mahua Moitra accepted cash and favors in exchange for asking questions in the Lok Sabha about businessman Gautam Adani at the request of Hiranandani. In this context, on the previous Thursday, Nishikant Dubey and Ashwini Kumar Dehadrai provided "oral evidence" to the committee against Mahua Moitra.
(With Agency Inputs)
