The Lok Sabha ethics committee will meet on November 7 to adopt its draft report over the cash-for-query allegation against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra.
Moitra had deposed herself before the panel headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar on November 2.
The meeting for adopting the draft report means that the committee has finished its enquiry and will now be making its recommendation, reports PTI.
The last meeting of the panel was a stormy affair after the opposition members, along with Moitra, staged a walkout, accusing Sonkar of asking personal and unethical questions to the West Bengal MP. Sonkar has, however, denied the charges.
The committee, in which BJP members are in a majority, is likely to take a grim view of Moitra’s conduct and her accusation against the panel chairman.
Besides Sonkar, other members of the committee are Vishnu Datt Sharma, Sumedhanand Saraswati, Aparajita Sarangi, Rajdeep Roy, Sunita Duggal, and Subhash Bhamre of the BJP; V. Vaithilingam, N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Balashowry Vallabbhaneni, and Preneet Kaur of the Congress; Hemant Godse of the Shiv Sena; Giridhari Yadav of the JD(U); P R Natarajan of the CPI(M); and Danish Ali of the BSP.
Moitra had written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla after the November 2 meeting, alleging that Sonkar, instead of asking questions pertinent to the matter, exhibited a preconceived bias by questioning her in a malicious and defamatory way.
“I have been subjected to the proverbial 'vastraharan' by him in the presence of all members of the Committee," she said, adding that the ethics committee has “no ethics or morality left”.
Moitra, a staunch critic of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been in the middle of a political storm ever since BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused her of taking bribes for asking questions in parliament.
Dubey also alleged that the TMC MP had compromised the national interest by sharing the login details of her Lok Sabha account with businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
Both Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai—who allegedly provided evidence against the TMC MP—had deposed before the ethics panel last month.