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BJP MP seeks action against Nusrat over ‘false information’ on marital status

BJP MP Sanghmitra Maurya has written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla demanding a strong action against Trinamool Congress leaders Nusrat Jahan over giving “false information” to Parliament regarding her marital status. Maurya asked the matter to be referred to the Ethics Committee for detailed “investigation for her illegal and ethical conduct” and […]

BJP MP Sanghmitra Maurya has written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla demanding a strong action against Trinamool Congress leaders Nusrat Jahan over giving “false information” to Parliament regarding her marital status. Maurya asked the matter to be referred to the Ethics Committee for detailed “investigation for her illegal and ethical conduct” and appropriate action taken against her.

In her letter to the Speaker on 19 June, Maurya, who is BJP MP from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, attached the Lok Sabha profile of the Trinamool Congress MP where she has mentioned her husband’s name as Nikhil Jain.

“An appropriate action be intimated under relevant rules of Lok Sabha procedure and/ or the matter be referred to Committee on Ethics for detailed investigation for her illegal and ethical conduct,” Maurya said in the letter.

“Her media statement regarding her marital status controvert her oath for Lok Sabha membership wherein she took oath as Nusrat Jahan Ruhi Jain. This effectively renders her membership as non-est in law,” the letter added.

Maurya’s letter said that Jahan in her oath ceremony on June 25, 2019 pronounced her name as Nusrat Jahan Ruhi Jain and was also dressed as a newly-wed person. “In fact, when she was attacked by a section of Islamists for marrying a non-Muslim, sporting sindoor, MPs across party lines defended her. Her reception, as per media reports, was attended by CM Mamata Banerjee,” the BJP MP wrote.

Speaking to ANI, Maurya said that Jahan is entitled to her personal life and nobody should encroach upon it but her recent media statement about her marriage means “she deliberately provided false information in parliament”.

“She deliberately provided false information to Lok Sabha Secretariat thereby indulging in unethical, illegal and immoral conduct. She cheated her electorate by giving false information and this brings bad name to parliament and its members,” Maurya alleged.

West Bengal BJP vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar had earlier this month accused Jahan of making “contradictory” remarks pertaining to her marital status and said the law should take its own course. “This is a huge contradiction. She is a member of parliament. She is a lawmaker and she is not obeying the provisions. The law should take its own course. Even in parliament, she said that her marital status is ‘married’,” Majumdar had said.

With agency inputs

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