‘Fixed match from the start’: Mahua Moitra after ethics panel approves her expulsion from parliament

Mahua Moitra said there was no discussion on the draft report and the chairman of the ethics panel put it to a direct vote.

Mahua Moitra said the day she can actually be deported is the first day of the winter session of Parliament.

New Delhi: A day after the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee approved Mahua Moitra’s expulsion from Parliament, the Trinamool Congress MP rejected the panel’s decision in the cash-for-query case, calling it her “badge of honour” that an ethics committee had expelled an ‘unethical’ person. .

“For me it is a badge of honor because I feel that I will go down in history as the first person to be unethically deported by an ethics committee whose mandate does not even extend to deportation. The best they can do is suspend. It is the Privileges Committee that can recommend an expulsion,” Mahua Moitra told India Today TV.

She added that it was a set match from the start. Mahua Moitra also added that there was no discussion on the draft report and the chairman of the ethics panel put it to a direct vote.

She said the day she could actually be deported is the first day of the winter session of parliament. “Let that happen and we will move on,” Moitra added.

Notably, the TMC MP, who is accused of taking bribes to raise questions in Parliament, said all her “61 questions, especially on Mr Adani, are of public interest”.