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Mahua Moitra
Mahua Moitra (born 12 October 1974) is an Indian politician, former investment banker, and Member of Parliament representing Krishnanagar, West Bengal, as a leader of the All India Trinamool Congress
...Read more- Cash-for-query scam: What lies ahead for Mahua Moitra after expulsion from Lok Sabha??
The Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha recommended expulsion for the Trinamool leader. Experts say if the Lok Sabha member is expelled, he or she or she can challenge it.
- Lok Sabha Ethics Committee recommends expulsion of Mahua Moitra in 'cash-for-query' matter
After the meeting, Sonkar told reporters that six members of the panel supported adoption of the report and four opposed it.
- Cash-for-query row: LS ethics committee may recommend TMC MP Mahua Moitra's expulsion
The committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar is meeting later on Thursday to adopt its draft report in what is likely to be hotly contested by opposition members of the panel.
- Advocate Dehadrai files complaint with Delhi Police against TMC MP Moitra for 'trespassing, criminal intimidation'
Moitra has admitted that he used her login details but has rejected any pecuniary considerations, asserting that most MPs share their login credentials with others.
- Mahua Moitra case: Meeting of Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee postponed to Nov 9
The convening of the meeting for adopting the draft report means that the committee headed has finished its enquiry and will now be making its recommendation after its members ranged along party lines in their last deliberations on November 2.
- Ethics Committee to adopt draft report against Mahua Moitra on November 7
The meeting for adopting the draft report means that the committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar has finished its enquiry
- Subjected to humiliating questions at Lok Sabha ethics panel hearing: Mahua Moitra
In an interview with PTI, Moitra said she was asked irrelevant details about her personal life and that she registered her protest and submitted that she would reply to any relevant question through affidavit.
- MeitY sends notice to Apple over threat notification to opposition MPs, journalists
iPhone hacking: Several opposition MPs and journalists took to X formerly Twitter, saying that they have received a threat notification from Apple warning them of state sponsored attackers targeting their device
- Cash-for-query case: Mahua Moitra appears before Ethics Committee
Moitra admitted that she shared her log-in credentials with Hiranandani but has ruled out any pecuniary motive.
- Cash-for-query case: Mahua Moitra says will appear before Ethics Committee on November 2
The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee had earlier asked her to appear on October 31. She had requested a hearing date after November 5 to accommodate her existing commitments but was denied an extension beyond November 2.
- Centre attacks Opposition whenever questions raised against Adani: Rahul Gandhi on alleged phone tapping
A number of Opposition MPs have claimed to have received notifications from Apple stating their devices are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers.
- Opposition MPs, journalists say Apple has warned them of their iPhones being targeted in State-sponsored attack
Apart from politicians, Observer Researcher Foundation (ORF) president Samir Saran and two journalists too said that they had received similar notifications from Apple
- Cash-for-query row: Mahua Moitra drops media houses from defamation suit
The Trinamool Congress MP has now sought permission to file a fresh list of defendants with just BJP’s Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Dehadrai. The Delhi High Court had asked Dubey and Dehadrai to file a response and has posted the case for hearing on December 5
- Bribe-for-vote case: Can lawmakers be prosecuted for taking bribes to speak or vote in Parliament?
Article 105 of the constitution of India allows freedom of speech in parliament. In order to uphold the same, MPs must not be prosecuted in a court of law for what they said or how they voted in the house. The question has been considered by the Supreme Court twice – 25 years apart.
- How Henry the dog got caught in Mahua Moitra-Supreme Court lawyer's political crossfire
In this war of words and legal wrangling, Mahua Moitra and Jai Anant Dehadrai have accused each other of stealing the Rottweiler, Henry.
- Who is Jai Anant Dehadrai, the complainant in the Moitra 'cash for questions' controversy?
The genesis of Moitra's expulsion is a complaint by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey to the speaker of lok sabha, Dubey in turn referred to a complaint by supreme court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai.
- Mahua cleared her stand on bribery charges, TMC waiting for report of Parl panel probe: Derek O'Brien
The TMC has distanced itself from the controversy over the allegation against the Lok Sabha MP.
- NIC should release details of all MPs' login locations: Mahua Moitra
Moitra was reacting after BJP's Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey claimed she was in India when her parliamentary ID was used in Dubai and that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) had disclosed the information to probe agencies.
- Bribery accusation: TMC maintains distance from Mahua Moitra
The party has nothing to say on this issue. We think the person around whom this controversy is revolving is best suited to react to this, TMC's West Bengal general secretary and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
- Cash-for-query row: Moitra's senior counsel withdraws from case after allegations of 'conflict of interest' are made
Gopal Shankaranarayanan withdrew from the case after Jai Dehadrai told the high court that the senior counsel had called him the previous evening and tried to mediate between him and the TMC MP
