Trinamool Congress’s Mahua Moitra should not be allowed to continue as an MP and her membership should be terminated, the parliamentary Ethics Committee examining the cash-for-query allegations against her has recommended. Calling Mahua Moitra’s actions “highly objectionable, unethical, heinous and criminal”, the committee said it calls for severe punishment. In the operative part of the 500-page report, the committee has also recommended that a “legal, intensive, institutional and time-bound investigation” be held into the entire matter.The Committee has concluded that Mahua Moitra had shared user ID with “unauthorised persons”, took cash and amenities from businessman Darshan Hiranandani and it was “serious misdemeanour” on her part which calls for “serious punishment”.
“The money trail of cash transaction between Smt Mahua Moitra and Shri Darshan Hiranandani as a part of a ‘quid pro quo’ should be investigated by the government of India in a legal, institutional and time-bound manner,” the report read.The report will be submitted to the Lok Sabha Speaker during the winter session of Parliament.