Mahua Moitra's expulsion result of 'Maa Kali's curse': BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari

Digital Desk: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari stated on Friday that Mahua Moitra, the TMC MP, was expelled from the Lok Sabha because of the "curse of Maa Kali," referring to her previous statements stating that her Maa Kaali consumes meat, smokes cigarettes and drinks whisky. Shubhendu Adhikari, the head of the opposition, stated as much during a news conference held today at the Uluberia BJP party office.

Following a debate over the Ethics Committee's findings on the "cash for query" matter, which was brought before the Lower House, Moitra was dismissed from the Lok Sabha. Suvendu Adhikari also recalled Mahua's previous admission that her Maa Kaali consumes alcohol, smokes cigarettes, and eats meat. This is her curse," he added.

Suvendu Adhikari had earlier in the day stated on social networking platform X regarding Mahua Moitra's membership being cancelled. In that post, she noted "Don't use slanderous words while referring to the Divine, as her rage can raze you completely."

"Mere mortals know your limitations; don't use slanderous words while referring to the Divine. You don't have the capacity to belittle her, but her rage can raze you completely. Jai Maa Kali," Suvendu Adhikari said in a post on X.

The suspended Lok Sabha member said that she was found guilty of violating a "nonexistent" code of conduct. Mahua Moitra, the leader of the Trinamool Congress, said on Friday that the Ethics Committee looking into the situation is just another "weapon to crush opposition into submission" and that the panel has breached every norm in the book after being expelled from the 17th Lok Sabha in a "cash for query" case.

Soon after her dismissal, she stated, "This LS has also witnessed the weaponization of the Parliamentary committee," when reading her remarks on Parliament grounds. The Ethics Committee was ironically established to operate as a moral compass for its members, but it has been egregiously exploited today to accomplish precisely what it was never intended to accomplish—that is, to subdue the opposition and turn it into just another tool to 'thok do' (crush) us into submission."

"Every regulation in the book has been breached by this committee and this report. In essence, you are accusing me of violating an unexistent code of ethics," Moitra remarked, adding that the committee is penalising her for partaking in a behaviour that is customary, approved, and supported in the House.

Moitra further alleged that her privilege to cross-examine the two private persons whose written testimony materially contradicted each other was stolen and that the results were based only on their testimonies.

"I was unable to cross-examine any of them. Merely posing as a regular citizen in front of the committee, my estranged lover is one of the two private people. I am there, hanging there, at complete odds with the two testimonies that have been used against me," she said.

"The complainant says (that) I accepted cash in consideration for my businessman to ask questions in furtherance of his commercial interests. But the businessman's suo motu affidavit, says I pressurised him into uploading questions to further my agenda. The two are at the pole of opposites," she clarified on the issue.

The Ethics Committee's investigation into the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP's "unethical conduct" had suggested that Moitra "may be expelled" from the Lok Sabha and demanded that the federal government conduct a "time-bound, intense, legal, institutional inquiry."

As soon as the Lok Sabha approved the resolution to remove Mahua Moitra as a TMC member of parliament, the opposition MPs staged an instant walkout.