Lok Sabha Speaker refers Nishikant Dubey’s complaint against Mahua Moitra to ethics committee

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday referred Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey’s complaint against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra that she took bribes for questions in Parliament to the Ethics Committee of the Lower House, reported PTI.

In a letter to Birla on Sunday, Dubey sought to immediately suspend Moitra for allegedly taking bribes from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament.

The BJP MP accused Moitra of breach of parliamentary privilege, contempt of the House and criminal conspiracy.

Nearly 50 of the 61 questions asked by Moitra were meant to “seek information with the intent of protecting or perpetuating business interests” of Hiranandani, Dubey alleged in his letter

“The questions were also often focused on the Adani Group, another business conglomerate, Hiranandani Group was bidding for business against,” the BJP MP wrote.

Dubey also cited a letter from an advocate named Jai Anand Dehadrai, who he claimed had shared “irrefutable evidence” about Moitra asking questions in Parliament in exchange for cash and gifts.

Dehadrai, Moitra’s former partner, has claimed that she had given access to her online Lok Sabha account to Hiranandani, reported Bar and Bench. He alleged that the businessman misused this access to post Parliamentary questions that would benefit him.

Based on these allegations, Dubey had also written to Union...

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