Ethics panel report on Mahua Moitra's 'cash-for-query' case to be tabled in Lok Sabha today
Earlier that day, on november 9, the ethics panel, chaired by vinod kumar Sonkar, endorsed a report recommending Moitra's removal from the lok sabha over the 'cash-for-query' allegation. Six members of the panel voted in support of the report, including congress MP Preneet Kaur, who had previously been suspended from the grand old party for anti-party activities.
Four panel members from opposition parties provided dissent notes. The report was dubbed a "fixed match" by the opposition members, who said that the complaint made by bjp lok sabha member Nishikant Dubey, which the panel analysed, was not supported by a "shred of evidence." Dubey originally levelled the 'cash-for-query' charges against Moitra, citing supreme court lawyer jai Anant Dehadrai's claims that the trinamool congress MP collected paid to ask questions in parliament on behalf of industrialist Darshan Hiranandani.