‘Welcome answering questions to CBI, Ethics committee,’ says Mahua Moitra after Hiranandani affidavit to LS panel

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— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) October 19, 2023

“I have neither time nor interest to feed a Adani-directed media circus trial or answer BJP trolls,” Moitra wrote on X, adding that she was enjoying Durga Puja in Nadia. In his three-page affidavit, Hiranandani said Moitra “thought that the only way to attack Sh. Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is by attacking Sh. Gautam Adani and his group as both were contemporaries, and they belong to the same state of Gujarat”.

The affidavit comes days after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote two letters — one to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla claiming there are allegations that Moitra took bribes to protect the interest of the Hiranandani Group, and the other to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to investigate the IP addresses of Moitra’s log-in credentials for Lok Sabha to check if they had been accessed by someone else.

In a press release late at night, Moitra, denied the allegations, calling Darshan a “dear friend” and claiming: “They were threatened with a total shutdown of all their businesses… They were told they will be finished, the CBI would raid them and all government businesses would stop and all PSU bank financing would be stopped immediately.”