'Cash for Query' row: Hiranandani's confession shakes up Mohua Moitra's stand
Major setback to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mohua Moitra in the "cash for query" scam, Darshan Hiranandani, on October 19, reportedly shifted sides, taking up the approver's role with his confession about using Mitra's parliamentary login to raise questions from the Centre.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has levelled graft charges against Moitra for allegedly taking "bribes" from a businessman for raising questions in the Parliament, following which the TMC MP from Bengal's Krishnanagar sought the appointment of an "inquiry committee" to probe into the matter.
The defamation lawsuit Moitra filed against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who accused her of accepting "bribes" from a businessman to raise questions in Parliament, will be heard on October 20, Friday.
Hiranandani's confession came just a day before the scheduled hearing.
Moitra, in the late hours on October 19, shared a two-page press note on microblogging site, ripping apart Hiranandani's confession and Dubey's allegations of graft levelled against her. In the note to the media, she questioned Hiranandani's intentions behind the charges.
"Why has Darshan not done a press conference and read this out or tweeted it himself or his company put it out? If indeed he has “confessed” to this why is he not releasing it officially rather than through back channel leaks? Moitra questioned in the press release.
"Every effort is being made to malign me and isolate and scare those near and dear to me. My closest have been threatened with ED and CBI raids in the next few days," she further noted in her long note.
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