Bother seems mounting for Trinamool Congress MP after BJP chief and Lok Sabha MP Nishikant Dubey additional approached anti-corruption physique watchdog, Lokpal and lodged a grievance in opposition to the TMC chief over ‘money for question’ case. Dubey has earlier lodged a grievance with the Lok Sabha Speaker over the difficulty. The Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha is already trying into the allegations in opposition to Moitra.
Taking to X (previously Twitter), Dubey wrote, “(I’m) uninterested in listening to CBI, CBI. I filed a grievance (in opposition to Mahua Moitra) with the Lokpal at present. The Lokpal is the one authority, which is remitted to look into complaints of corruption or impropriety in opposition to MPs, ministers or different folks’s representatives. The CBI is an company by which it carries ahead its investigation into such complaints.”
CBI- CBI सुनते सुनते थक गया हूँ । आज लोकपाल को शिकायत दर्ज करा दिया । सांसद,मंत्री का भ्रष्टाचार लोकपाल ही देखता है,CBI ही उसका माध्यम है ।
— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) October 21, 2023
Dubey filed a grievance with the Lokpal, accusing Moitra of accepting a sum of Rs 2 crores, consisting of each Indian and foreign currency echange, from businessman Darshan Hiranandani. This alleged transaction was purportedly in alternate for Moitra posing questions in Parliament. Moreover, Dubey claimed that Hiranandani had misused the Lok Sabha login credentials of the TMC MP whereas she was abroad.
“The complainant is in receipt of a letter dated October 14, 2023, from one Jai Anant Dehadrai, Advocate, Supreme Courtroom of India, whereby a number of critical and disturbing details together with detailed proof have been talked about in opposition to Mahua Moitra. Within the letter, Dehadrai gives in nice element how, when and the place Moitra acquired bribes from a businessman Darshan Hiranandani. The mentioned letter clearly mentions how Mahua Moitra has acquired Rs two crores in money from the mentioned Darshan Hiranandani each in Indian foreign money and in international foreign money for asking questions in Parliament. The content material of the mentioned letter is self-explanatory. It additionally mentions that the mentioned Darshan Hiraanandani had direct entry to Mahua Moitra’s Lok Sabha logging credentials and the identical has been utilized by the mentioned Darshan Hiraanandani whereas Mahua Moitra was travelling overseas,” Dubey mentioned in his grievance to Lokpal.
In the meantime, Hiranandani on Friday submitted an affidavit to the Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha turning approver. The accused Dubai-based businessman alleged that the TMC MP supplied him together with her ‘Parliament login and password’ in order that he ‘may submit questions immediately on her behalf when required’.
In her response to the affidavit, Moitra mentioned earlier that it was “on white paper and never an official letterhead”. “The affidavit is on white paper and never an official letterhead or notarized. Why would one among India’s most revered/educated businessmen signal a letter like this on white paper until a gun was placed on his head to do it?” she posted on X.
In the meantime, Moitra’s get together TMC has distanced itself from the controversy refusing to touch upon the matter. The get together mentioned that solely involved individual shall reply to this challenge.
