BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accuses Congress' Adhir Ranjan of leaking ethics panel report on TMC's Mahua Moitra

Accusing the Congress MP and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for ’leaking’ the Ethics Committee report on Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday said that he is not aware of what is mentioned in the report.

“…Let the report be tabled. I don’t know what is mentioned in the report…What I had to say, I said before the Ethics Committee…I will be able to make a comment only after the report is tabled. The report will be tabled after 12 pm…I don’t know how was the report leaked, I think Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury leaked it…” Dubey said.

#WATCH | Winter Session of Parliament | On Ethics Committee report on TMC MP Mahua Moitra, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey says, "...Let the report be tabled. I don't know what is mentioned in the report...What I had to say, I said before the Ethics Committee...I will be able to make a… pic.twitter.com/A40wRey0bX

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According to several media reports, the committee in its report has recommended the expulsion of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in a “cash-for-query” case. The Ethics Committee, which probed the ‘cash-for-query’ allegations against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, will lay its report in Lok Sabha on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament on December 4.

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The listed agenda of Lok Sabha mentions that Ethics Committee chairperson Vinod Kumar Sonkar and member of the Committee Aparjita Sarangi will be laying “on the Table the First Report (Hindi and English versions) of the Committee on Ethics”.

Lok Sabha Ethics Committee had last month submitted its draft report connection with the ‘cash-for-query’ case to Speaker Om Birla. Sources said the committee had recommended the expulsion of Moitra.

The Ethics Committee, which investigated the allegations made by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, adopted its 500-page report on November 9 recommending Moitra’s expulsion from the 17th Lok Sabha given her “highly objectionable, unethical, heinous and criminal conduct.

“Notably, Nishikant Dubey had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against Moitra, accusing her of asking questions in Lok Sabha to target the Adani Group at the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for gifts.

However, several leaders of the opposition, including Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Danish Ali and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have opposed the report. “The Ethics Committee report is against the rules; Mahua Moitra’s deposition is incomplete. So, we are demanding a discussion, at least in the House. We have also written to the Speaker about how can there be a suo-motu recommendation against a member. Nobody is ready to abide by the rules and regulations…” Danish Ali said.

Adhir Ranjan, while speaking to ANI said that his party will oppose the expulsion of Mahua from Parliament.“We will oppose as such an expulsion should not be done. We have written a letter and we have been saying that the issues of Parliament should be dealt inside the Parliament…” he said.

With inputs from ANI.