TMC MP Mahua Moitra submits breach of privilege motion against Zee TV and Sudhir Chaudhary, but Speaker disallows it 

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who has been a part of the daily news cycle for the past fortnight with regard to her maiden speech in Lok Sabha, submitted a breach of privilege motion against Zee TV and its editor Sudhir Chaudhary on Thursday for “allegedly falsely reporting her maiden address in the Lower House of Parliament,” reported ANI.

“I have submitted a breach of privilege motion today against Zee TV and its editor Sudhir Chaudhary for falsely reporting my maiden address in this House,” said Moitra, while speaking in Lok Sabha.

However,  her submission was denied by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

On June 25, 2019, Moitra,  a legislator from Krishnanagar in West Bengal who had defeated Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kalyan Chaubey by a margin of more than 63,000 votes, tore into the government during her maiden speech in the Lok Sabha. She began her speech by humbly accepting the mandate in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and explained why “dissent is all the more important” today. She also went on to explain why we are witnessing signs of “early fascism” in India. Expanding on the role of the media, she had said that “there is an unimaginable subjugation and controlling of mass media today” and that five of the largest news media organisations are “indirectly controlled or indirectly indebted to one man in this country”.

On Wednesday (July 3), Moitra yesterday lashed out at the media after her maiden speech in the Lok Sabha attracted allegations of plagiarism. She also shared a tweet on her twitter handle tagging Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary who claimed her speech was plagiarised.

Just a day before this, on July 2, Chaudhary had hosted an entire primetime news segment on the issue of whether Moitra’s speech was indeed plagiarised or not.

ANI also reported that Moitra had quoted American commentator Martin Longman’s tweet and said, “right-wing a**holes seem to be similar in every country.”