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 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.
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.
TMC MP calls allegations against her a 'motivated, malicious slander campaign', adds that Darshan Hiranandani affidavit 'provides no actual inventory of what he has allegedly given me'.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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