New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has written to the office of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to move party MP Mahua Moitra from the parliamentary standing committee on Communications and Information Technology to another committee.
The Communications and Information Committee is chaired by BJP’s Nishikant Dubey, who had written to Birla last year and had made the allegation that Moitra took bribes for raising questions in Parliament to “protect the interest of a business group”, reported The Indian Express.
Moitra too, had sought the termination of Dubey from the Lok Sabha and alleged that his MBA and PhD degrees were fake.
TMC sources said that the party’s Lok Sabha floor leader Sudip Bandipadhyay had written the letter to Birla on moving Moitra to another committee because of the existing animosity between her and Dubey.
Last year, Moitra had denied the allegations but she was expelled from parliament after the Lok Sabha ethics committee recommended it.
Opposition parties had stood by Moitra and said that she was expelled because of the uncomfortable questions she asked the BJP in parliament about the relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and controversial businessman Gautam Adani.
Moitra was re-elected to the Lok Sabha this year.
