New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has referred BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s “interrogation in return for bribe” complaint against Trinamool Congress member Mahua Moitra to the Ethics Committee of the lower house.
Dubey has accused Moitra of taking “bribes” from a businessman to ask questions in Parliament and urged Birla to set up an “inquiry committee” to probe the allegations against her.
Moitra hit back saying she “welcomes any step taken by the Lok Sabha Speaker against him (Dubey) once he deals with the charges pending against him.”
The chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha is BJP member Vinod Kumar Sonkar.
On Sunday, Dubey wrote to Birla under the subject “Re-emergence of ‘cash for query’ in Parliament, direct involvement of Smt”. Mahua Moitra, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), has been booked under section 120-A of the Indian Penal Code for serious ‘breach of privilege’, ‘contempt of the House’ and ‘criminal offence’.
Citing a letter received from a lawyer, Dubey said the lawyer has shared “irrefutable” evidence of exchange of bribes between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and a businessman.
In his letter to the Speaker, Dubey said that 50 of the 61 questions asked by him in the Lok Sabha till recently were focused on the Adani Group, the business conglomerate which TMC MPs have often accused of misconduct, especially when it is its target. But were. A Critical Report of Short-Selling from the Hindenburg.
