The Lok Sabha ethics committee report on the cash-for-query allegations in opposition to TMC chief Mahua Moitra will be tabled on December four on the primary day of the winter session of Parliament. The MP is probably going to be disqualified whereas the INDIA bloc is predicted to stage a walkout in protest, sources stated.

The merchandise was within the listing of enterprise for the winter session, for which the agenda papers have been circulated by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Friday. The parliamentary panel’s chairperson, BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar, will lay on the desk of the House the primary report recommending Moitra’s expulsion.

According to prime sources, the federal government will put ahead a movement to expel Moitra, who has been accused of taking bribes in trade for asking questions in opposition to enterprise tycoon Gautam Adani. This is predicted to create a ruckus within the House as opposition events could unite in her help, sources added.

Sources additional stated the Congress is in contact with Moitra and has conveyed to her that they want to stand as one on this as it’s a political witch hunt.

The ethics committee adopted the report at a gathering on November 9. Six members of the panel voted in favour of the report, together with Congress MP Preneet Kaur, who had earlier been suspended from the occasion. Four members of the panel belonging to opposition events submitted dissent notes.

The opposition members termed the report a “fixed match” and stated the criticism filed by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, which the panel reviewed, was not supported by a “shred of evidence”. Moitra can be expelled provided that the House votes in favour of the panel’s suggestion.

The winter session of Parliament is scheduled to proceed until December 22.

(With PTI inputs)