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Cash For Query Case: In the cash for query case against Trinamool Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra, the report of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee recommending her expulsion will be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Monday (December 4). It will be first day of the Winter Session of the Parliament.

According to news agency PTI, Ethics Committee chairperson Vinod Kumar Sonkar will lay on the table of the House the panel's first report. The committee adopted its report recommending the expulsion of Moitra from the Lok Sabha over the "cash-for-query" allegation. Six members of the panel voted in favour of the report, including Congress MP Preneet Kaur, who had earlier been suspended from the party. Four members of the panel belonging to opposition parties submitted dissent notes.

Meanwhile, the opposition have termed the report as a fixed match and said that the complaint filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey, which the panel reviewed, was not supported by a "shred of evidence".

Dubey had written to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against Moitra, accusing her of asking questions in Lok Sabha to target the Adani Group at the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for gifts. He claimed that Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai had provided him with proof of alleged bribes. The BJP MP and Dehadrai had appeared before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee.

Moitra, in a post on X on November 10, had said she was being "unethically expelled".

"Proud to go down in parliamentary history as 1st person to be unethically expelled by Ethics Comm whose mandate doesn't include explusion. 1st expel & THEN ask govt to ask CBI to find evidence. Kangaroo court, monkey business from start to finish," she said.

The winter session of Parliament will conclude on December 22.

(With input from agencies)