Cash-for-query row: Lawyer Dehadrai and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey Appear Before Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 26th Oct. Lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai and BJP leader Nishikant Dubey appeared before the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha on Thursday. They were there to provide their statements regarding the cash-for-query allegations against Trinamool Congress member Mahua Moitra.
Nishikant Dubey had filed a complaint with Speaker Om Birla, using documents provided by Dehadrai as evidence for the allegations against Moitra. Birla referred the matter to the committee, which is chaired by BJP member Vinod Kumar Sonkar.
Dehadrai was the first to give his statement, followed by Dubey in the afternoon. Dubey stated that he would answer any questions posed by the committee.
“Documents don’t lie,” Dubey said when pointed out that Moitra had refuted all the allegations levelled against her.
In the letter to Birla dated October 15, Dubey said the advocate, close to Moitra before they fell out, has shared “irrefutable evidence of bribes exchanged” between her and businessman Darshan Hiranandani to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The fiery TMC member dismissed the charges as a “jilted ex’s lies”, a reference to Dehadrai, and accused the Adani Group of being behind them to target her as she has been relentless in raising questions on the conglomerate’s practices and transactions.
In his letter to the speaker, Dubey said 50 of 61 questions she asked in Lok Sabha till recently were focused on the Adani Group.
In a signed affidavit, Hiranandani, the CEO of real estate-to-energy eponymous group, who allegedly paid her to raise questions in Parliament, said the TMC leader targeted Gautam Adani to “malign and embarrass” Modi whose impeccable reputation gave the opposition no opportunity to attack him.
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