Former MP and Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra has been issued a notice to vacate her official residence within 30 days following her expulsion from the Lok Sabha, as per TV news channels reports. Moitra was expelled based on the report of the ethics committee of the Lok Sabha in the ‘cash-for-query’ case on Friday. The action came following the passage of a motion supporting her expulsion by the House.

On Tuesday, the Housing Committee of Parliament forwarded the request to ask Moitra to vacate her official residence to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Challenging her expulsion, Moitra moved the Supreme Court on Monday.

The Lok Sabha, based on the Ethics Committee’s report finding her guilty of “unethical conduct” and recommending a government-led inquiry into the cash-for-query allegations, expelled TMC MP Mahua Moitra. This decision faced strong opposition objections.

During a heated debate where Moitra was denied the chance to speak, the Opposition walked out before the expulsion motion was put to a vote—ultimately passed by a voice vote. Last month, a 6:4 majority in the panel adopted the report.

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“This LS has also seen the weaponization of the Parliamentary committee. Ironically the Ethics Committee which was set up to serve as a moral compass for members instead has been abused egregiously today to do exactly what it was never meant to do, which is to bulldoze the opposition and become another weapon to ‘thok do’ (crush) us into submission,” Mahua Moitra stated.

Following the Lok Sabha’s motion to expel the TMC MP, the opposition staged a walkout.

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Reacting to her expulsion, Moitra alleged that the findings relied solely on written testimonies from two private citizens whose versions contradict each other materially, and she was denied the right to cross-examine them. She further stated that the breach of the code of ethics, she has been held for does not exist.

“I was not allowed to cross-examine either of them. One of the two private citizens is my estranged partner, who, with malicious intent, posed as a common citizen in front of the committee. The two testimonies have been used to present opposing views,” she said.

The Ethics Committee report investigating ‘Unethical Conduct’ of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP recommended Moitra’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha and called for an “intense, legal, institutional inquiry” by the central government within a “time-bound manner.”