Ethics Committee member Aparajita Sarangi said this
New Delhi: Following the expulsion of TMC MP Mahua Moitra from Lok Sabha in the ‘cash for query’ case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Ethics Committee member Aparajita Sarangi on Friday said Moitra’s conduct was “unethical” and such Needed Should be condemned.
Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha after discussion on the Ethics Committee report in the ‘cash for query’ tabled in the Lower House today.
“I am also a woman, I want to say that whether it is a woman or a man, we all are MPs… According to the system, both men and women MPs need to work… Mahua Moitra has behaved unethically, hence doing so Should be condemned. If the opposition is standing with them then they are supporting the wrong thing,” Aparajita Sarangi said on Friday.
He further said that the expulsion of TMC MP is a lesson for all MPs, when we become MPs we take oath, we have to follow some rules.
“This is a lesson for all MPs, when we become MPs, take oath, we have to follow certain rules… The whole country is watching us… In the case of Mahua Moitra, immorality was visible… Sarangi Said, this is the reason why he was expelled from the Lok Sabha.
The expelled Lok Sabha MP alleged that he has been found guilty of violating a code of conduct which ‘does not exist’. Following her expulsion as Trinamool Congress MP from the 17th Lok Sabha in the ‘cash for query’ case, TMC leader Mahua Moitra on Friday said the Ethics Committee probing the matter is “another weapon to crush the opposition” and it The panel has broken every rule in the book.
Soon after his expulsion, he read out his statement in the Parliament complex and said, “This Lok Sabha has also seen the weaponisation of the parliamentary committee. The irony is that the Ethics Committee, which was set up as an ethical guideline for members, has instead been misused.” “Today it is doing strictly what it was never meant to do, that is, to crush the opposition and become another weapon to ‘thok do’ (crush) us to our knees.”
Moitra said, “This committee and this report have broken every rule in the book. In short, you are finding me guilty of violating a code of conduct that does not exist.” Regularized, accepted and encouraged in the House.
Moitra further alleged that the findings are based solely on the written testimony of two private citizens, whose versions are materially contradictory to each other and that she has been deprived of her right to cross-examine.
“None of whom was allowed to cross-examine me. One of the two private citizens is my estranged partner, who presented himself before the Committee as a private citizen with bad intentions. Both the testimonies have been used to hang me there.” Polar opposites of each other,” she said.
“The complainant alleges (that) I accepted cash from my businessman for asking questions to further his business interests. But the businessman’s suo motu affidavit states that I pressurized him to upload the questions to further my agenda. There are differences between the two. On the contrary,” he clarified on the issue.
The report of the Ethics Committee probing the ‘unethical conduct’ of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP had recommended that Moitra “may be expelled” from the Lok Sabha and a “timely, thorough, legal, institutional investigation” by the Central government. The demand was made. -In a forced manner”.
The report said, “Mahua Moitra’s grave misdeeds require strict punishment. Therefore, the Committee recommends that MP Mahua Moitra may be expelled from the membership of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha.”
Speaker Om Birla said, “…this House accepts the finding of the committee that the conduct of MP Mahua Moitra was unethical and unbecoming of an MP. Therefore, it is not appropriate for him to continue as MP…”
After this the House was adjourned till 11 December. Opposition MPs immediately staged a walkout after the Lok Sabha passed a motion to expel Mahua Moitra as TMC MP.
