Proverbial "Vastraharan" At Panel Meet: Mahua Moitra In Letter To Speaker

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who stormed out of the Parliamentary Ethics Committee hearing earlier today, accompanied by Opposition members, has alleged that she was subjected to humiliating personal questions from the panel. The MP, battling cash for questions allegations, described the episode as "proverbial vastraharan (stripping)" -- in a reference to the chapter in Mahabharat, where Pandav queen Draupadi was humiliated by the Kuru clan in open court.

In a letter to Speaker Om Birla in the evening, she wrote that the Chairman of the Ethics Committee "subjected me to proverbial Vastraharan'.

The Ethics Panel has "no ethics or morality left", she added, accusing its chairman of "pre-conceived bias".