Following BJP Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey’s claim that Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was in India when when her parliamentary ID was used in Dubai, a combative Moitra on Saturday shot back saying National Informatics Centre (NIC) should release information on login access of all MPs and verify if they were physically present there
Keeping up her attack on the Adani group, she also demanded a CBI probe into allegations against the company related to coal imports.
Moitra has been at the centre of a political storm after Dubey wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla citing a letter he received from advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, who is Moitra’s former partner, on the bribery allegations. Dubey, who has accused Moitra of accepting bribes and favours for asking questions in Lok Sabha at the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani, CEO of Hiranandani Group, to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, later said he has moved the Lokpal.
He also claimed on Saturday that when the TMC MP was in India her parliamentary ID was used in Dubai and that the had disclosed the NIC has information to probe agencies.
Hitting back, Moitra posted on X that unknown Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) owning shares of the Adani group was a bigger national security concern and “not an email ID that every PA & every unchecked intern team of every MP has publicly & accesses at will”.
The Krishnanagar MP added the CBI should first probe the Adani group over coal prices allegations, and also said that she was not ready to accept a “deal” to “shut up for six months”.
She said she got a message about an impending CBI raid. “I am busy with Durga Puja. I invite CBI to come home & count my pairs of shoes. But first please file FiR into Rs. 13,000 crore coal money Adani stole from Indians,” she said.
In a series of posts on X, Moitra said, “Request NIC to please release all details of MPs publicly to show they were physically present in place from where IDs were accessed by their PAs & researchers/interns/staff. Don’t use Fake Degree wala for leak, make this public NOW.”
“Unknown FPIs own Adani shares whose origin SEBI cannot find and Adani gets MHA clearance to buy Mumbai airport. This is the real question of National security. Not email ID that every PA & every unchecked intern team of every MP has publicly & accesses at will,” she said.
“Sorry Mr. Adani. I am not taking your deal to shut up for six months in return for “peace”. And nor am I taking the second deal where I am allowed to attack you but not the PM’.
“Adani used to CASH TO NOT QUESTION. Now he is forced to create a fake CASH FOR QUESTIONS (sic),” she alleged.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had accused the Adani Group of fleecing people to the tune of Rs 12,000 crore through coal imports and sought a probe.
Parliament’s Ethics Committee has called Dubey and Dehadrai for oral evidence on October 26.
In a signed affidavit submitted to the committee, Hiranandani admitted to using Moitra’s parliamentary login to ask questions targeting Adani after state-owned behemoth Indian Oil Corporation booked capacity at the Gujarat-based conglomerate’s Dhamra LNG import facility in Odisha and not at his firm’s planned facility.