Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Saba on Friday for ‘unethical conduct’. The development came soon after a heated debate on the 'cash-for-query case' against her.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expelled Moitra after the tabling of a report by the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee which recommended her expulsion. Opposition members staged a walkout of Lok Sabha as the House voted to expel TMC MP Mahua Moitra for 'unethical conduct'.
“This Lok Sabha has also seen the weaponization of a Parliamentary Committee. Ironically, the ethics committee was set up to serve as a moral compass for members. Instead, it has been abused egregiously today to do exactly what it was never meant to do,” said Moitra in her reaction.
On Mahua Moitra’s expulsion as TMC MP, BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi told ANI, "This is a lesson to all MPs. When we become MPs, we take an oath, we're supposed to follow certain rules. The whole country is watching us. In Mahua Moitra's case, immorality was visible. This is the reason why she was expelled from Lok Sabha.”