TMC MP Mahua Moitra
Mahua Moitra, a member of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), claimed on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “desperation” to conceal the Adani group’s purported coal scandal is the reason behind the recommendation to remove her from the Lok Sabha.
She claimed that PM Modi wishes to silence anyone who brings up this matter in an exclusive interview with the news agency PTI.
The “cash-for-query” scandal led the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee to propose Mahua Moitra’s removal from the Lower House, according to sources. She is charged with taking “illegal gratifications” from a businessman in exchange for asking him to pose questions in Parliament.
In response to the Ethics Committee’s proposal, Moitra expressed assurance that she will return in 2024 with a larger mandate from the Lok Sabha elections. She stated to PTI, “the Ethics panel just helped me double 2024 winning margin” .
“I’m honored to become the first member of the parliamentary record to be wrongfully ejected by the Ethics Committee, whose purview does not extend to expulsion. First, fire, and then request that the government ask the CBI to locate proof. In a post on X, the head of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) stated, “Kangaroo court, monkey business from start to finish
Hitting out at the Prime Minister, Mahua Moitra told PTI, “Adani has a ₹13,000 crore coal scam. In any other country, this would have brought down the government. Mr Modi, deep in his heart, knows this. So they are desperate to keep this hidden as long as possible.
“Modi and Adani are running the government… Anyone who questions and calls them out is in panic. We are one of the few people who are doing this. So their idea is shut them up, put them in jail…,” Moitra was quoted by the report as saying.
The Krishnanagar MP described the saffron party as “a factory of liers”. “Every day they put out fake news and the problem is media in this country is all controlled by Modi and Adani. They pick it up, amplify and everyone starts jumping,” she said.