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CM Mamata Banerjee denounces Mahua Moitra’s expulsion, calls it “vendetta politics”

Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee denounced removal of her party’s MP Mahua Moitra from the Lok Sabha, characterizing it as a transparent instance of “vendetta politics” on the part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The 49-year-old Ms. Moitra was dismissed from the Lok Sabha today after it was found in an Ethics Committee report that she had accepted bribes in return for criticizing the government. The leader of the Trinamool Party is accused of accepting cash and opulent gifts from businessman Darshan Hiranandani in return for raising critical questions of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in Parliament.

“This is vendetta politics of BJP. They killed democracy….It is injustice. Mahua will win the battle. The people will give a befitting reply to the BJP. They will be defeated in the next election,” Chief Minister Banerjee said today.

“It is a shame for parliamentary democracy. We condemn the way Mahua Moitra was expelled, the party stands with her. They (the BJP) can’t defeat us in the election, so they have resorted to vendetta politics. It is a sad day and the betrayal of Indian parliamentary democracy,” she added.

“She (Ms Moitra) will return to Parliament with a bigger mandate. The BJP thinks the party can do whatever it wants as they have a brute majority. They must keep in mind that a day might come when they may not be in power,” Ms Banerjee said.

Chief Minister Banerjee claimed that Ms. Moitra was not given the chance to refute the accusations by the ruling party.

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Shivanshi Srivastava

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