Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Saturday expressed solidarity with Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra after the Nadia district administration allegedly tried to make her vacate a circuit home in Krishnanagar. He mentioned the federal government should defend her if a crowd is focusing on her, as an alternative of asking her to go away authorities lodging.
Moitra, the MP from Krishnanagar, has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in search of his intervention and has additionally threatened to maneuver court docket over what she referred to as harassment. She alleged that a big crowd gathered outdoors the circuit home on Friday evening, elevating ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogans after she refused to go away.
Tharoor mentioned all democrats should stand in solidarity with Moitra in her travails. “If the value of her convictions is {that a} mob is baying for her, it’s the responsibility of the federal government to supply her safety, to not ask her to vacate authorities lodging!” the Thiruvananthapuram MP mentioned.
He added that “such elementary concerns shouldn’t be spelt out in a democracy, least of all on the day that marks the end result of our freedom battle”, utilizing the hashtag ‘Stand With Mahua’ on X.
In her letter to Birla, Moitra mentioned, “I kindly request you to urgently look into the matter and take obligatory steps to set an instance and make sure the dignity of ladies parliamentarians throughout the nation.”
She added, “Any Girls’s Reservation Invoice in search of to herald extra ladies is a matter of jest except your august workplace can defend the 74 ladies who’ve battled nice odds to enter this Home.”
Moitra mentioned she had moved into the circuit home in Krishnanagar for an in a single day keep following a Parliament session and that, as an MP, she was entitled to remain there. She alleged that district authorities had been pressuring her to go away in the midst of the evening with the intent to harass her.
Describing the sequence of occasions, she wrote, “I went into the room of the Circuit Home round 6.15 pm. The employees confirmed me to my normal room, which was made up and prepared. Tea was served in my room at 7 pm, and dinner was served at 9.20 pm within the room.”
She added, “At 9.47 pm, I obtained a name from the extra district Justice of the Peace of Nadia, who knowledgeable me that I wanted to vacate the premises. After I requested him the explanation, he mentioned that the ‘order had come from the highest’, and he was solely conveying the message.”
Moitra additionally mentioned that at 10.52 pm she obtained a WhatsApp message from the district administration carrying a duplicate of an order stating that no new reservations had been to be honoured on the circuit home. She had earlier posted the order, issued by the Nezarath deputy collector of Nadia, on her social media accounts.
The doc mentioned, “In view of facilitating the annual upkeep cum maintenance and cleansing preparations, the Nadia circuit home (at Krishnanagar) shall not be accessible for service from the night of August 14, 2026, until additional orders.” It added, “Reservations already confirmed previous to thirteenth August, 2026, solely shall be exempted from the final purview of this order.”
Moitra claimed that no one knowledgeable her about any reserving embargo both when she made the reserving or when she checked in. The row over her keep has now drawn assist from Tharoor, whereas Moitra has sought the Speaker’s intervention and raised the problem of the protection and dignity of ladies MPs.
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