Manas Dasgupta
NEW DELHI, Oct 15: A BJP Member of the Lok Sabha has demanded immediate suspension of Trinamool Congress MP accusing her of taking money for asking questions in Parliament in violation of fair Parliamentary practices.
The woman TMC MP has immediately shot back welcoming any inquiry into the allegation while hitting out at the Adani group.
The BJP’s Nishikant Dubey in a letter to the Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Sunday demanded immediate suspension of Mahua Moitra, alleging that she “took bribes to ask questions” in parliament from businessman Darshan Hiranandani, accusing her of breach of parliamentary privilege.
Levelling the massive allegation, Dubey said Moitra took cash and gifts from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament to protect his business interests. Moitra responded to the allegations and said CBI is welcome to investigate “right after they finish investigating Adani’s offshore money trail, over-invoicing, benami account.”
Citing research work by an advocate, Nishikant Dubey said out of Mahua Moitra’s recent 61 questions, 50 “shockingly seek information, with the intent of protecting or perpetuating business interests of Shri Darshan Hiranandani and his Company. The questions were also often focused on the Adani Group, another business conglomerate, Hiranandani Group was bidding for business against.”
“Whenever there is a Parliament session, the shouting brigade of All India Trinamool Congress, led by Smt Mohua Moitra and Shri Saugata Roy, are in habit of disrupting the proceedings of the House, by their continued abuses on each and everybody, on one pretext or the other. I, along with several other Members of Parliament, were always perplexed, as to why this ‘shouting brigade’ of TMC led by Smt Mahua Moitra indulges in such tactics, which infringes on the constitutional rights of other members, to debate and discuss the issues of common people and policies of the Government,” the letter said.
“Now, with the unmasking of quid pro quo in the form of ugly and deliberate motive of Smt Mahua Moitra, to raise money from a businessman in lieu of asking questions in Lok Sabha, targeting another business group, it has become amply clear that the edifice of ‘morality’ being exhibited by Smt Mahua Moitra was nothing but a ‘Machiavellian Camouflage’ for committing a crime by entering into a criminal conspiracy and at the same time enjoying the title give to Smt Mahua Moitra as a ‘firebrand Member of Parliament’, which is nothing but a sham,” it added.
Mahua Moitra slammed the Adani Group and said they were wasting their time in trying to shut her up. “If Adani group is relying on dodgy dossier created by dubious Sanghis & circulated by fake degree wallahs to either shut me up or bring me down I would advise them not to waste their time. Use your lawyers wisely,” Moitra said.
Dubey’s letter comes on the same day Mahua Moitra’s photo with Shashi Tharoor raising a toast went viral. The Trinamool MP reacted to that also and said Bengal’s women have a life and there is no lie. Darshan Hiranandani is the son of Niranjan Hiranandani who co-founded the Hiranandani Group engaged in real estate business.
