Oppn MPs walk out after Lok Sabha adopts motion to expel Moitra, protest Speaker Om Birla's refusal to let her speak in her defence. TMC MP calls decision 'misogynistic, patriarchal'.
Ethics panel adopted the report, which recommends her expulsion, on 9 November. 6 members of panel had voted in favour of report. 4 members from opposition parties submitted dissent notes.
In report, tabled in Lok Sabha today, Moitra stands accused of sharing login details of LS Members Portal with 'unauthorised person'. On 'cash for query' allegation, panel recommends govt probe.
The Congress MP in the letter pointed at the 'unclear demarcation of roles' of the Privileges Committee and the Ethics Committee, especially in case of exercising penal powers.
The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee Thursday recommended Moitra's expulsion, capping a fortnight of actions that included the deposition of three people over three sittings.
The 15-member panel was probing allegations that TMC MP Moitra took bribes to ask questions in Parliament, also shared login credentials with Dubai-based tycoon.
Ethics committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar is meeting later Thursday to adopt its draft report which is likely to be hotly contested by opposition members of the panel.
TMC MP walks out of LS Ethics Committee meeting where she was questioned in connection with 'cash-for-query' allegations against her. Five Oppn MPs, all on panel, walked out with her.
It is obscene that a man so detached from India should occupy such a powerful position in a party that governed India for most of its republican history.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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