BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai will appear before the Committee for oral evidence in regard to the complaint filed by Dubey against TMC MP Mahua Moitra alleging that she has "a direct involvement in 'cash for query' in Parliament".
The businessman at the centre of alleged 'Cash for Query' scandal, Darshan Hiranandani, says he regrets the personal error of judgment of using TMC MP's parliament login credentials.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday criticised the circulation of cropped images showing him with Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and called it an act of "cheap politics."
The war of words between BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra over his "cash for query" allegations against her continued on Saturday with both targeting each other through social media posts without taking names
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday demanded suspension of TMC MP Mahua Moitra over the alleged 'Cash for Query' scandal and said that if Mahua Moitra has done this work of taking money to ask questions, then the investigation should be done.
Amid the ongoing alleged 'Cash for Query' allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that the government is "eager" to protect a particular industrialist and create "rai ka pahaad" (mountain out of a molehill).
Amid the ongoing alleged bribery allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday extended his complete support to TMC MP adding that the government is indulging in a "witch-hunt" and trying to "hassle" her.
Vinod Sonkar, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Ethics on Friday informed that he has received an affidavit from the business Darshan Hiranandani regarding the 'Cash for Query' scandal which mentions the role played by TMC MP Mahua Moitra in this row.
TMC MP has also raised questions over the credibility of the affidavit that Hiranandani reportedly submitted to the Parliament Ethics committee, claiming that it is "neither on official letterhead nor notarised" and that the contents of the letter are "a joke."