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TMC MP Mahua Moitra has been expelled from Lok Sabha following an Ethics Committee report that held her guilty of taking bribes in exchange for criticising the government. The 49-year-old MP faces accusations of receiving cash and luxurious gifts from businessman Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for posing questions in Parliament that painted the Narendra Modi government in a negative light.  Mahua Moitra has never shied away from speaking against the government in the Parliament. Let us look at some of the explosive speeches by the TMC leader.    Mahua Moitra took a jibe at Centre over the fall in industrial output. She said that "the government and the ruling party coined the term Pappu. You use it to denigrate and signify extreme incompetence. But the statistics tell us who the actual Pappu is." She also took a swipe at the BJP over its defeat in the just-concluded Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, saying the ruling party’s president could not hold on to his home state. “Who’s the Pappu now?”    #MahuaMoitra #ExpulsionNews #Loksabha #Ecomony #MahuaMoitraExplosiveSpeeches #MahuaMoitraParliament #MahuaMoitraLokSabhaSpeech #Pappu #MahuaMoitraExpelled #CashForQueryCase #CashForQueryCaseExplained #CashForQueryTimeline #DanishAli #DarshanHiranandani #NishikantDubey #MahuaMoitraNews #MahuaMoitraLokSabha #PoliticalDevelopments #PartyDecision #PoliticalNews #MahuaMoitraExpelled #InternalPolitics #PartyDecisions #PoliticalMoves #PoliticalDrama #MemberExpulsion                  ~HT.178~PR.152~GR.123~

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00:00 As the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers.

00:06 And it often happens that if a lie be believed for only one hour, it has done its work.

00:11 Falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it.

00:16 This government has us believe every February that this country's economy is going great

00:21 guns.

00:22 We are the fastest growing, most efficient global player.

00:25 Everyone is getting employment.

00:26 We are getting gas cylinders.

00:28 We are getting electricity.

00:30 We are getting pakka houses.

00:32 This falsehood flies for about eight to ten months and then the truth comes limping after

00:36 it.

00:38 And now we are in December and the government says it needs another 3.26 lakh crores of

00:43 additional funds over and above the budget estimate.

00:48 The government and the ruling party coined the term pappu.

00:52 You use it to denigrate, to signify extreme incompetence.

00:56 Let me use the next few minutes to point out what the data, the statistics tell us as to

01:01 who the actual pappu really is.

01:04 NSO numbers were out yesterday.

01:08 Industrial output has shrunk by 4% in October to a 26 month low.

01:13 The manufacturing sector contracted 5.6%.

01:17 Manufacturing is still the biggest generator of jobs.

01:20 17 of the industry sectors that make up the index of industrial production have recorded

01:26 negative growth rates.

01:28 Forex reserves have fallen by $72 billion in under a year.

01:33 The Honourable Finance Minister yesterday during question hour mentioned how apparently

01:37 50% of FII inflows into emerging markets are coming into India.

01:42 Wonderful.

01:43 But her colleague, the Minister of State for External Affairs, just last Friday in response

01:48 to a question in this very house stated that almost 2 lakh people, 183,741 people renounced

01:57 their Indian citizenship in the past 10 months of 2022.

02:02 This exodus in 2022 takes the total number of Indians renouncing Indian citizenship under

02:08 this government in the past nine years since 2014 to over 12.5 lakh people.

02:15 This year has already seen more people giving up Indian citizenship than any single given

02:19 year.

02:20 High net worth individuals are willing to pay up to a million dollars to get citizenship

02:25 of Portugal, of Senkits, of Greece.

02:29 Is this the sign of a healthy economic environment, of a healthy tax environment?

02:33 Who's the pappu now?

02:34 There is an atmosphere of terror in this country with the sword of the Enforcement Directorate

02:40 hanging over businessmen and high net worth individuals.

02:43 The ruling party buys lawmakers for hundreds of crores and yet members of the opposition

02:49 represent 95% of lawmakers under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate.

02:55 But forget politicians.

02:56 They're tough.

02:57 They can fend for themselves.

02:59 Businessmen and high net worth individuals are soft targets.

03:02 In the monsoon session, in response to a query from my honourable colleague from the JDU,

03:06 Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Singh, the Finance Ministry informed this house that in the past 17 years

03:11 the ED has opened 5,422 investigations under the PMLA but has convicted only 23 people.

03:22 That is a conviction rate of a pathetic 0.5%.

03:26 Since 2011, the ED has launched 1,600 investigations, 1,800 raids and convicted only 10 people.

03:35 In the supplementary demand for grants, I see that the government is asking for an additional

03:40 2,900 crores to buy land and ready-built accommodation, office accommodation for the Enforcement

03:45 Directorate.

03:46 The taxpayers, you and I, are paying for the ED's operations, for their prosecutions,

03:51 for their investigations, for their foreign junkets.

03:54 So do Parliament and public representatives have no right to ask this na khaunga na khaane

03:59 doonga Sarkar who's presiding over the ED why there is such a pathetic conviction rate

04:04 of 0.5%?

04:06 Is the ED's job only to harass people or is it to actually track down and catch the perpetrators

04:12 of financial crimes?

04:14 What is this level of incompetence?

04:16 Who's the pappu now?

04:18 Members of the ruling party continue to spread falsehoods about the benefits of demonetization

04:23 ad nauseam with no regard to the actual data.

04:27 You have not achieved the goals of a cashless digital economy.

04:31 You have not achieved the goals of phasing out fake currency.

04:34 Even after six years of your dhamaka announcement, currency in circulation has doubled from 18

04:40 lakh crores in November 2016 to 32 lakh crores in November 2022.

04:46 Cash management company CMS's cash index for ATM hit an all-time high this Diwali.

04:52 Cash is still king.

04:54 Demonetization did not achieve any of the three targets.

04:56 Who's the pappu now?

04:58 I've been reviewing the demand for additional grants and there are various items in it that

05:03 are shocking.

05:04 From a total subsidy request of 1 lakh 9 thousand crores in March, the Department of Fertilizers

05:09 has asked for an equal amount in the supplementary request.

05:13 Just urea alone is accounting for 86 thousand crores.

05:17 Phosphorus and potassium are controlled because they are nutrient-based subsidies.

05:21 What is this government doing to stem the overuse of urea, which is killing the soil,

05:25 killing productivity and killing our health?

05:28 What the soil needs is balanced use of fertilizers.

05:31 Bengal has been promoting a balanced fertilizer blend of major fertilizers and now we are

05:36 suffering because the center is starving us of the most popular mix of NPK, which is the

05:41 basal application for potato.

05:43 During November 22, Bengal asked for a certain amount and only 33% of our demand for balanced

05:49 fertilizers was met by the center.

05:53 Most of the urea-based subsidies going to Gale because Gale supplies the maximum gas

05:57 to the fertilizer sector.

05:58 When are we going to see the much-promised reform and competition in this natural gas

06:03 sector?

06:04 When are we going to see the promised transmission system operator, the unbundling of Gale?

06:09 Is the government hiding and protecting Gale under the garb of providing urea subsidies

06:13 to people?

06:14 Nearly 2 thousand crores supplementary demand is for large industry, whereas only 233 crores

06:22 is for the MSME sector.

06:24 The MSME sector accounts for 90% of jobs in the industrial sector.

06:29 These are very distorted priorities.

06:31 About 45 thousand crores demand is for Manrega and other rural employment schemes.

06:36 This is far too little, far too late.

06:39 The rural sector accounts for nearly two thirds of employment in this country.

06:42 Field reports suggest that only a very small fraction of rural households are getting Manrega

06:47 jobs.

06:48 That too, not more than 30 to 40 days instead of the assured 100 days.

06:52 That too, there's a three to four week lag in wage payment, simply because there is inadequate

06:57 allocation of funds.

06:58 There is also no supplementary demand for subsidised food delivery under PDS.

07:03 There's an overall anti-poor bias in the supplementary demand for grants.

07:08 BSNL is being provided, this is very interesting, BSNL is being provided a viability gap funding

07:14 of 18 thousand crores for rural wireline operations.

07:17 Prime of AC, I don't have a problem with this, but if the government of India wants to keep

07:23 giving BSNL viability gap funding, it is also giving it free spectrum worth 30 thousand

07:28 crores.

07:29 Then why not make BSNL free roaming rural for everybody?

07:32 If I'm not a BSNL user, I'm an Airtel user.

07:35 I am paying for BSNL's free spectrum.

07:38 It is not only BSNL subscribers who are paying for it.

07:41 So if Airtel has poor network in a rural area, why can my phone not latch onto BSNL?

07:46 Taxpayers are paying for this, make it free for all in rural areas.

07:50 The supplementary demand for grants will amount to an additional expenditure of about 4.36

07:54 lakh crores.

07:56 This is going to raise the fiscal deficit above the target that you mentioned in the

07:59 budget.

08:00 So what is the government's additional revenue mobilisation measures, especially non-tax

08:05 revenue, that is going to make this up, make up the additional expenditure so we stay within

08:09 the fiscal demand targets, fiscal deficit target?

08:13 The Honourable Finance Minister yesterday stood in this house and she likened us, the

08:17 opposition, to videsh ka dushman.

08:21 And she said we have jalan ka bhavna at India's growth.

08:25 I stand here today to tell the Honourable Minister, wherever she may be, to tell this

08:29 government, to tell this ruling party, that all of us here have given up our lives, our

08:36 youth, our jeevon, our jovon, as it were, to dedicate ourselves to the service of this

08:41 great land, to the service of its people.

08:44 We represent the farthest corners of this country, from Karimpur to Kutch, from Katgoddam

08:49 to Kasargod.

08:50 It is our inalienable right to ask the questions of this government.

08:56 It is our right to question your incompetence.

08:59 And it is this government's rajdharma that should make the Treasury benches sit down,

09:03 listen to our voices, and not react like the proverbial khisiani billi.

09:09 It requires enormous courage and tenacity to simply stand up here and speak the truth,

09:14 and we are doing it.

09:16 In contrast, the ruling party is moving from one incendiary issue to another, from the

09:21 division of Bengal into North and South, to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, to releasing

09:26 convicted lifetime murderers and rapists just before an election, to openly trying to challenge

09:31 the judiciary into submission.

09:33 You somehow keep hoping that you will scare India into submission, and you will keep winning

09:38 power term after term.

09:40 But it's not working.

09:41 You just went to election in three states.

09:44 With all your might, with all your resources, you won in only one.

09:48 The president of the ruling party could not hold on to his own home state.

09:51 Who's the pappu now?

09:54 A certain honourable MP from the Treasury benches, who's given to trespassing in high

09:58 security zones, who goads us all with equal measure of falsehood and fake bravado.

10:05 Yesterday took cheap pot shots at my state, the state of Bengal, with false claims of

10:09 diversion of Manrega funds.

10:12 To him I say this, "Sir, don't push your luck.

10:15 I went to Mount Holyoke College.

10:16 I worship Maa Kali, and I've been elected twice from a border constituency.

10:20 In your lingo I say to you, and this is not unparliamentary, don't take panga."

10:26 A certain Jerry Booty baba says publicly he likes women in saris, shalwars, and also nothing

10:33 at all.

10:34 In the presence of the wife of a deputy chief minister of the ruling party, hand on heart

10:39 ask yourselves, had any opposition leader said anything remotely similar, you would

10:44 have been baying for their blood.

10:46 The ruling party does not denounce it.

10:47 There is no outrage.

10:49 A convicted murderer and rapist is publicly giving sermons while out on parole, and leaders

10:54 of the ruling party are listening to it.

10:56 You do not have the moral clarity to call out right from wrong.

10:59 Who's the pappu now?

11:02 People tell me to keep quiet, to make peace in the name of soft Hindutva.

11:06 I am Hindu, but I refuse to play soft anything.

11:09 What this country needs is an elected government which plays hard morality, hard legality,

11:15 and hard economics.

11:17 No soft anything.

11:19 I urge this government and the finance minister to take control of the economy, and I urge

11:24 the people of India to take control over who they give the reins of this country to.

11:29 [Hindi] This is a question that India needs to answer.

11:38 Thank you very much.

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