Unethical Ethics Panel making me a heroine: Mahua Moitra

Mahua Moitra, the embattled Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar in West Bengal, is contemplating taking the legal route to challenge her impending expulsion from the Lok Sabha.

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Speaking to The Daily Guardian from her constituency where she is spending her Kali Puja and Deepawali, she said: “Let them expel me first and then obviously… In its hurry to nail me, the Ethics committee has made huge faux pas. I am proud to go down in parliamentary history as the first person to be unethically expelled by an Ethics Committee whose mandate doesn’t include expulsion. The BJP wanted to paint me as a villain, they have only succeeded in making me a heroine. You should see what the common people of my constituency are saying. Their support is my strength.”

Moitra said that the committee had, in its hurry to silence an anti-Adani voice, had recommended her expulsion without any evidence. “They recommended my expulsion without an iota of evidence. Then they ask the Government to ask the CBI to find evidence. This is monkey business in a kangaroo court.” The 479-page report by the Ethics panel, chaired by Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member Vinod Kumar Sonkar has accused Moitra of accepting “money — cash and kind, amenities and various other facilities” from businessman Darshan Hiranandani.