Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey wrote
a letter to Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Union IT Minister of State
(MoS) Rajeev Chandrashekhar making “cash for query” allegations against
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and demanding an inquiry committee against
her.
The allegations against Mahua Moitra were presented by
an advocate of the Supreme Court to the CBI with the assistance of Dubey to the
Speaker of Lok Sabha, stated the letter by the BJP MP.
These allegations included that she committed a
criminal breach of trust, violated parliamentary ethics, and acted in a manner
that was detrimental to Bharat’s national security, the letter further stated.
Dubey has claimed that a Supreme Court lawyer had
levelled allegations of bribe exchanges between the TMC MP and businessman
Darshan Hiranandani.
He said, “The allegations that have been brought
forward in front of the relevant authorities are serious in nature and echo
back to the Cash for Query incident that came forth almost eighteen years ago.”
“The claim that the Member of Parliament representing
Krishnanagar gave Darshan Hiranandani and the Hiranandani Conglomerate access
to her login credentials for the Lok Sabha website so that they could utilise
it for their own personal gain is possibly the most damning and grave of all
the charges that are being made against her,” Dubey continued.
“If the claims made above are found to be accurate, this
constitutes a serious criminal breach of trust as well as a violation of India’s
national security because it would give unauthorised individuals access to
government websites that may contain classified information,” he added.
“The alleged sharing of Moitra’s Lok Sabha credentials
with an external entity poses a direct threat to national security. Access to
the Lok Sabha site might provide sensitive, possibly classified, information.
Unauthorized access risks exposure of strategic data that could be exploited to
undermine India’s policy decisions or strategic interests. Moreover, any
compromise of the cyber-security protocols, like sharing credentials, weakens
the nation’s digital infrastructure, making it susceptible to domestic and
international cyber threats. This act, if proven, not only threatens data
integrity but can set a precedent, endangering the nation’s overall security
apparatus,” he added.
He further said the National Informatics Centre (NIC)
has been entrusted with the duty of operating government websites and is
charged with storing data, including the IP addresses of individuals who seek
to log in to their websites.
“The website for the Lok Sabha does not constitute an
exception to this requirement,” he wrote.
Dubey urged to initiate an investigation to ascertain
the IP address of all login credentials of Mahua Moitra’s Lok Sabha account and
to determine whether there are any instances in which her Lok Sabha account was
accessed at a location where she was not present.
This comes a day after Dubey wrote a letter to the Lok
Sabha Speaker over the same matter, demanding the formation of an enquiry
committee against the TMC MP. He has also sought Moitra’s suspension from the
House.
In his letter titled “Re-emergence of nasty Cash for
Query in Parliament”, Dubey has alleged “serious Breach of Privilege, Contempt
of the House and a Criminal Offence under the Section 120A of the IPC” by the
Trinamool Congress MP.
Reacting to the complaint, about which Dubey also
tweeted, Moitra said she will welcome any motion once the pending breach of
privileges motions against ruling party members are dealt with.
With this war of words, an open battle has begun
between the BJP MP from Godda, Jharkhand, and the TMC MP from Krishnanagar,
West Bengal.
ANI
