Six Trinamul Congress MLAs have written a letter to the party chief bringing charges of non-cooperation against Mahua Moitra, party MP from Krishnagar in Nadia district, sources said.
Trinamul Congress candidate Mahua Moitra filed her nomination papers from the Krishnagar parliamentary constituency before the district election officer Arun Prasad today.
On Saturday morning, a team of CBI officers reached the residence of the father of Mahua Moitra, who was recently expelled from the Lok Sabha in connection with the alleged cash-for-query scam.
The Lokpal has given the CBI six months time to complete the probe.
Yusuf Pathan will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Baharampur constituency.
Speaker Om Birla put Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi’s proposal to expel the member before the House after hour-long deliberations, and it was approved by a voice-vote in which the Opposition did not participate because of its walk-out.
The opposition leaders including those from Moitra’s own party TMC, hit out at the government over the expulsion.
Amid the ongoing row on the alleged "cash-for-query" case, TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Monday refrained from making any comment on the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee report stating that she would only speak when the report is tabled before Parliament.
The TMC MP said, "What can I say when it was not even tabled (before the Parliament)? Had they tabled it, I would have said something."
According to several media reports, the committee in its report has recommended the expulsion of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in a "cash-for-query" case.
