NEW DELHI: Four-time BJP MP from Godda in Jharkhand, Nishikant Dubey and TMC’s Mahua Moitra, who had a running fight in the last Lok Sabha resulting in termination of TMC MP’s membership of the House over cash-for-query charges, have landed on the same parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology.
While Dubey has been nominated as chairperson of the committee, feisty TMC member Moitra is one of the members of the panel that also includes outspoken BJP member Kangana Ranaut.SP Rajya Sabha member Jaya Amitabh Bachchan, who has had spats with the chairman of Upper House Jagdeep Dhankar and members of the governing alliance, and the legendary music composer Ilaiyaraja are also on the panel.
Moitra had been expelled as a Lok Sabha MP in Dec last year after a discussion on the report of the ethics committee in the ‘cash for query’ probe that was tabled in the Lower House.
In Oct last year, it was Dubey who had raised allegations of Moitra taking bribes for asking questions in Parliament and had sought an investigation.
The fight continued afterwards, moving to Delhi high court, which dismissed Moitra’s application, seeking direction to restrain Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai from making, posting, publishing, uploading, distributing any content stating that she accepted bribes from businessman Darshan Hiranandani to ask questions in Parliament.
The charge, however, did not come in the way of Moitra regaining her Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency in the June Lok Sabha polls.