The ethics committee of the Lok Sabha led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Kumar Sonkar will meet on Tuesday to consider and adopt a draft report on the cash for query allegations against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, less than two weeks after it initiated a probe, functionaries said.

The panel might recommend strict action against Moitra, including disqualification for the remainder of the current Lok Sabha, they said, requesting anonymity.

The panel might take a cue from a similar case of cash for query in 2005 in which all 11 MPs suspected of accepting money for asking questions were disqualified from Parliament, the officials said. The Supreme Court upheld the disqualification in January 2007.

“Complaint dated 15 October, 2023 given by Dr. Nishikant Dubey, MP against Smt. Mahua Moitra, MP for alleged direct involvement in cash for query in Parliament with reference to examination/ investigation of alleged unethical conduct of Smt. Mahua Moitra, MP by the Committee on Ethics – Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report,” read the notice of the meeting uploaded on Sunday.

Moitra, however, continued her attack on the BJP on Sunday. “Also BJP – before you push out women MPs with fake narrative remember I have EXACT transcript of record in Ethics Committee verbatim. Chairman’s cheap sordid irrelevant questions, Opposition’s protests, my protests – all there in official black & white. Besharam & Behuda,” she posted on X (formerly Twitter).