TMC MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha after a discussion on the report of the Ethics Committee in the 'cash for query' that was tabled in the Lower House today.
It s no secret that the BJP is targeting Mahua Moitra. There are complaints that the party has plans to get her expelled from the Lok Sabha, similar to what they did to Rahul Gandhi. And these schemes.
committee? reporter: oh, right, the ethics committee known for not being very fast and not very transparent, appears to be breaking with usual expectation and being kind of both. the ethics committee put out a statement yesterday around the same time we were finding out about santos bond guarantors, saying they have done 30 different subpoenas, they have expanded the scope of their investigation to include these claims of unemployment insurance fraud, which are of course part of the criminal case against george santos which have not originally been part of the ethics committee case, and unlike usually what ethics committee does business, they re not going to stand down while the doj conducts their own investigation. they re going to continue concurrently. pretty unusually robust, and aggressive posture from the ethics committee, which is of course divided evenly between the parties. more often than not leads to a slap on the wrist, here, i think, takes on extra importance given that
committee, meaning that there would be more republicans than democrats in most house committees, the ethics committee is 50/50, the same number of republicans and democrats, and that would indicate an investigation like this should george santos but reelections, should enter in the past election cycle. my guess is they want to have this situation wrapped up prior to the next campaign starting. i would imagine that you re looking at an investigation that would have to take less than a year for them to come to some sort of resolution. you re right. we rarely get this amount of detail from the house ethics committee. the fact that they were so willing to share that information shows how serious they re taking this investigation, and i should point out kind of the cloud that it has created that is hanging over the congress for democrats and republicans that have been forced to deal with this just this week. another member of the new york congressional delegation called for george santos to
away committee and, two, they do draw a line on which members they do and don t trust with classified information. given all the allegations, they put george santos in, quote, safer committees. i wonder, miles, if they re not telling him everything. i imagine he thinks he s all good. are they meeting behind closed doors and saying we can t trust this guy? i think that s probably right. they re probably trying to put george santos in the place that they think he can do the least amount of damage i would like to say to the country. they re probably putting him somewhere he can do the least amount of damage to the party, the republican party, until they re told by the ethics