BJP MP reacts on Mahua Moitra’s ‘cash for query’ case
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Locket Chatterjee on Friday, while talking about the ‘cash for query’ case of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, said that ‘there should be no politics on the issue of national security.’
Apart from this, he said that action should be taken against anyone who questions national security.
Locket Chatterjee told ANI, “There should be no politics on the issue of national security. Action should be taken against anyone who questions national security. Otherwise, the members of Parliament representing 140 crore people of the country will be suspicious.”
TMC leader Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha after the discussion on the Ethics Committee report in the ‘Cash for Query’ case was presented in the Lower House today.
Following her expulsion as Trinamool Congress MP from the 17th Lok Sabha in the ‘cash for query’ case, Moitra on Friday said the Ethics Committee probing the matter is “another weapon to crush the opposition” and the panel has examined all Has been broken. Rules in the book.
The expelled Lok Sabha MP alleged that he has been found guilty of violating a code of conduct which ‘does not exist’.
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 a moral compass for members, has instead been grossly abused today for doing exactly what it was never meant to do, namely crush the opposition. And to be another weapon to ‘blow’ (crush) us into submission.”
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. “Two testimonies have been used to hang me there.” At opposite poles 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,” she said 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, “Strict punishment is demanded for the serious crimes of Mahua Moitra. 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.
Moitra said that the Ethics Committee decided to hang me without getting to the root of the matter. “It refuses to call the businessman to testify and there is no evidence of any cash or any gift anywhere,” he said.
“You tell me I compromised national security with a login portal. Adani is buying all our ports, airports…Ramesh Bidhuri stands up in Parliament and says to Danish Ali, one of 26 Muslim MPs in a country of 200 million Muslims. BJP has 303 MPs and has not sent a single Muslim MP to Parliament. No action has been taken (against Ramesh Bidhuri). You hate minorities, you hate women, you hate women power, and you cannot handle power and authority, she said, adding that she is 49 years old and will not face any threat from her in or out of Parliament for the next 30 years. Will keep fighting.
