The Lok Sabha ethics committee will meet on Thursday to adopt a draft report on the cash-for-query allegations against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra.
Amid indications that the panel, headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar, may take a grim view of the charges against Moitra, reports claimed on Wednesday that the recommendations included sacking of the TMC leader from Lok Sabha.
The 500-page report of the committee has also recommended a legal probe into the matter, reported NDTV.
Moitra has been in the middle of a political storm ever since BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused her of taking bribes from businessman Darshan Hiranadani for asking questions in parliament targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani.
Moitra has dismissed the allegations even as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla referred Dubey’s complaint to the parliament ethics committee.
The Trinamool Congress MP deposed herself before the panel on November 2, but stormed out of the meeting along with some opposition members, accusing its chairman of asking personal and unethical questions.
The committee is expected to take a grim view of the conduct of Moitra and the opposition members during its proceedings. The 15-member committee has seven members from the BJP, three from the Congress, and one each from BSP, Shiv Sena, YSRCP, CPI(M) and JDU.
Congress sources said its members N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and V. Vaithilingam will submit dissent notes, reported PTI. BSP member Kunwar Danish Ali is also set to submit his dissent note, it said.
