Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Mahua Moitra has been proposed to the parliamentary standing committee on defence, over a year after she sought a transfer to the House information technology (IT) panel that is headed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey. Later on, a complaint made by lawyer Jay Anand Dehradai, Dubey was a central figure in the expulsion of Moitra in the Lok Sabha in 2023 on the grounds that she was asking questions in Parliament with money and favours allegedly received.
Moitra was also accused of having given her parliamentary password to others, a fact she has always denied, refuting the charges and raising the question of whether other parliamentarians had ever given their passwords.
After the rearrangement of House panels, Moitra, together with a Rajya Sabha lawmaker and actor Kamal Haasan, was added to the defence committee. In a post on X, Moitra had claimed that her party had asked Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to transfer her out of the IT panel, something which had not been done. She disclosed that she had not been attending any IT panel meetings within the last year as a protest. As a sign of appreciation, she thanked the TMC for nominating her to serve on the defence panel.
One of the Lok Sabha officials explained that Moitra did not need to mention the Speaker in her post because she had been transferred to the defence committee after being recommended by the party. TMC ordered Moitra to be transferred. But other panels had no vacancies, said the official. Another official also noted that Moitra and the TMC had earlier proposed that she be included in the IT panel when parliamentary panels were being constituted in 2024. But when Dubey took over the chairmanship of the IT panel, Moitra is said to have requested a transfer, claiming that she could no longer work with him.
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