Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha on Friday in the ‘cash-for-query’ case after the House passed a motion that supported her expulsion.

After the expulsion, Moitra hit out at the ethics committee for “acting without proof” and said the panel was becoming a “weapon” to “bulldoze” the Opposition. Speaking to reporters after being expelled as an MP, Moitra alleged the ethics committee and its report “broke every rule in the book”.

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Mahua Moitra expelled as MP

The motion, presented by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi in Lok Sabha, was passed through a voice vote. Notably, in its recommendation, Parliament’s Ethics Committee also found Moitra guilty in the ‘cash-for-query’ case and proposed her expulsion from the Lok Sabha.

Earlier, the Ethics Committee of Parliament, which was tasked with looking into allegations of corruption against the Trinamool Congress leader, found Mahua Moitra guilty of accepting money in lieu of asking certain questions in Parliament.

The TMC leader was expelled after a heated discussion in the Lok Sabha during which Opposition MPs, including Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Choudhary, sought more time to study the Ethics panel’s report.

The Opposition also demanded that Mahua Moitra be allowed to address the House during the debate on the panel’s report. This request was, however, rejected by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

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‘Committee broke every rule’

“The committee broke every rule… Tomorrow, the CBI will be sent to my home to harass me,” Mahua Moitra told reporters outside parliament today.

“This Lok Sabha has seen the weaponisation of a Parliamentary committee. Ironically, the ethics committee, which was set up as a moral compass for members, is instead being abused and made to do exactly what was never meant to, bulldoze the opposition and become another weapon to ‘thok do’ us into submission,” the TMC leader said.

The ethics committee submitted the report in Parliament on Friday after weeks of cross-examining all the people involved in the matter, including the complainants lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai and BJP leader Nishikant Dubey.