Mahua Moitra has been appointed a district chief in West Bengal
Kolkata:
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has been appointed the district chief of Krishnanagar (Nadia North), which falls beneath her Lok Sabha constituency. Ms Moitra obtained the brand new position within the celebration led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee amid an enormous controversy within the cash-for-query case towards the Bengal MP.
She thanked Ms Banerjee and her celebration in a submit on X, previously Twitter. “Thanks, Mamata Banerjee and AITC (All India Trinamool Congress) for appointing me district president of Krishnanagar (Nadia North). Will all the time work with the celebration for the folks of Krishnanagar,” Ms Moitra mentioned within the submit.
Thanks @MamataOfficial and @AITCofficial for appointing me District President of Krishnanagar (Nadia North) .
Will all the time work with the celebration for the folks of Krishnanagar.— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) November 13, 2023
Ms Moitra is amongst 15 different new district chiefs introduced by the ruling celebration in Bengal right now.
The Trinamool Congress was seen to be carefully watching the developments within the cash-for-query case towards Ms Moitra, with out wading into publicly defending her. The celebration has been circumspect in taking a public place, although Trinamool MP and Ms Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee has supported her over the choice of the Lok Sabha ethics committee to suggest her suspension from parliament.
The celebration’s transfer to provide her cost of a district in her personal constituency is being seen as a sign that the Trinamool considers her one in all their most necessary leaders.
The ethics committee, after listening to Ms Moitra in a closed-door assembly from which she and opposition MPs walked out over the way of questioning, in its 500-page report back to the Lok Sabha Speaker mentioned she shouldn’t be allowed to proceed as an MP and her membership needs to be terminated.
The committee referred to as Ms Moitra’s actions “extremely objectionable, unethical, heinous and legal”, and sought extreme punishment.
Within the operative a part of the 500-page report accessed by NDTV, the committee has additionally beneficial {that a} “authorized, intensive, institutional and time-bound investigation” be held into the whole matter.
The committee concluded Ms Moitra had shared person ID with “unauthorised individuals”, took money and facilities from businessman Darshan Hiranandani and it was a “critical misdemeanour” on her half which requires “critical punishment”.
“The cash path of money transaction between Smt Mahua Moitra and Shri Darshan Hiranandani as part of a ‘quid professional quo’ needs to be investigated by the federal government of India in a authorized, institutional and time-bound method,” the report learn.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey – who had flagged the matter to the Lok Sabha Speaker — has mentioned the anti-corruption physique Lokpal has ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the corruption allegations towards Ms Moitra.
The BJP MP had alleged that Ms Moitra accepted money from Mr Hiranandani to ask questions in parliament on his behalf to focus on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and enterprise rival Adani Group. He additionally claimed that Ms Moitra, by sharing her parliamentary login with the businessman, has compromised nationwide safety.
Ms Moitra had admitted to it, however claimed there isn’t a regulation governing sharing of login and password. Forward of her listening to with the Ethics Committee, she had written them a letter, questioning “Why these guidelines will not be shared with MPs”.