Mahua Moitra marriage: TMC MP Mahua Moitra ties the knot in Germany, husband Odisha politician

Moitra, 50, was in a relationship with lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai, but the two had a public fallout amid the “cash for query” allegations that led to her expulsion from the Lok Sabha in December 2023, months before the parliamentary elections. She was accused of accepting gifts and cash from Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for sharing her Parliament login ID with him and asking questions on his behalf. Dehadrai, whom Moitra later described as a “jilted ex”, was the complainant in the case.

Born in Assam’s Cachar district in 1974, Moitra had a fairly affluent upbringing in a family of tea planters and graduated with a degree in economics and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in the US. After leaving her corporate job and returning to the country, Moitra dived headfirst into politics. She first joined the Congress in 2008, where the party gave her the job of leading the “aam aadmi ka sipahi (common man’s soldier)” booth-level campaign that Rahul Gandhi had conceived. With the Trinamool Congress (TMC) increasingly looking poised to end decades of Left Front rule and the Congress a shadow of its past self, Moitra joined the Mamata Banerjee-led party two years later.

Thank you everyone for the love and good wishes!! So grateful pic.twitter.com/hbkPdE2X7z

— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) June 5, 2025

After toiling away in district politics for a few years, her big break came in 2016 when she won from the largely rural Karimpur constituency in Nadia district. Three years later, the party fielded her in the Lok Sabha elections, looking to utilise her oratorical skills on the national stage. Her debut speech in Parliament in which she targeted the BJP government over the “early signs of fascism” went viral on social media and established Moitra as an articulate spokesperson of the TMC on the national politics stage. Since then, she has made the headlines several times with her speeches targeting the Modi government and the RSS-BJP ideology.

Moitra has also often been at the centre of focus over her relationship with her party. Before the Lok Sabha polls, party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee admonished her during an administrative review meeting in Nadia because of bickering over ticket distribution. In April, she was involved in a public spat with her Lok Sabha party colleague Kalyan Banerjee.

Who is Pinaki Misra?

Pinaki Misra, Moitra’s husband, is a veteran politician from Odisha who became the Congress MP from Puri in 1996. A senior lawyer, he later joined Naveen Patnaik’s BJD and won Puri again in the 2009 and 2014 elections, becoming the party’s face in Delhi.

Misra, who has a son and a daughter from a previous marriage, also came under fire during the “cash-for-query” scandal, with the BJP demanding his expulsion from the BJD, citing Hiranandani’s affidavit to the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee. Misra dismissed the allegations as false and warned of legal action against the BJP.

Misra is the grandson of eminent poet and socialist leader Godabarish Misra, a Gandhian who opposed the caste system. Pinaki’s father Lokanath Misra was a two-term MLA who was initially with the Congress and later the Swatantra Party. He served as the Assam governor from 1991 to 1997. Misra’s uncle Ranganath Misra was the 21st Chief Justice of India. His cousin Justice Dipak Misra became the 45th CJI in 2017.