Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra and opposition parties MPs on Thursday walked out of the parliamentary ethics committee hearing in connection to the cash-for-query allegations against Moitra.
Mahua Moitra and Opposition MPs said that they “walked out” of the panel meeting because “unethical questions” were being asked. Moitra claimed that the Ethics Committee asked “filthy questions” during the meeting.
“What kind of meeting was this? They are asking all kinds of filthy questions,” Moitra, visibly upset, told reporters as she stormed out of the building.
“They are picking on anything. Talking any rubbish. ‘You have tears in your eyes’, they said. Do I have tears in my eyes, you see tears?” Moitra said as she widened her eyes to show the reporters that she doesn’t have tears.
Another Opposition MP, Danish Ali, said “it was too much” when a reporter asked why they left the meeting.
“We found the ethics committee chairperson’s questions to Moitra undignified and unethical,” Congress MP and panel member N Uttam Kumar Reddy was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Earlier, in her statement to the committee, Mahua Moitra said a “sour personal relationship” motivated the filing of the complaint over alleged cash-for-query against her.
A large part of her deposition before the committee was about her relationship with Dehadrai as she appeared to blame him for leaks and the allegations, news agency PTI reported.
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Moitra found support from some opposition MPs, including N Uttam Kumar Reddy of the Congress and Danish Ali of the Bahujan Samaj Party while a few BJP members, including VD Sharma, wanted her to respond to the substantive part of the allegations and not make it all about personal relationship going bad, PTI further reported.
Though Moitra has refuted the cash-for-query allegations, she admitted to giving her parliamentary login ID to businessman Darshan Hiranandani.