TRINAMOOL Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday said she will be back with a bigger mandate in the 2024 general elections, a day after the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee recommended her expulsion from the House in the “cash-for-query” matter. She is accused of accepting “illegal gratifications” from a businessman to raise questions in Parliament at his behest. “Proud to go down in parliamentary history as first person to be unethically expelled by Ethics Committee whose mandate doesn’t include expulsion. First expel and then ask Government to ask CBI to find evidence. Kangaroo court, monkey business from start to finish,” the TMC leader said in a post on X.

 

In another post, in an apparent reference to businessman Gautam Adani, the Krishnanagar MP said, “Also Mr. Adani - don’t waste your time telling everyone ‘Mahua’s ticket will be cut’”. “Only thing that will be cut is your market capitalisation as your house of cards unravels,” she said and asserted, “Like I said I will stand from Krishnanagar and double my margin.” In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Moitra had won the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal with a margin of 63,173 votes, securing 6,14,872 votes. BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey, who came second, got 5,51,654 votes.