I won’t take his [i.e. Gautam Adani’s] call because I don’t want to sell out like the rest. He is pulling the biggest con job on this country and the people with the help of this government and I will continue to speak about it. This is a calling for me, not a job… I have nothing to sort out with Adani. My answer to the Lok Sabha MP was, whatever Adani needs to say, let him say publicly and to his shareholders, he doesn’t do side deals with me, that’s settled. I have nothing to sort out, there is nothing I have to talk to Mr Adani about. And if he thinks he has got me to shut up, he has another thing coming, he has really got another thing coming.

Mahua Moitra Refutes Bribery Charges, Interview With Rajdeep Sardesai – YouTube

Yet another alleged, mega scam — how a seaport was delivered to Adani on a platter, on fantastic terms. A pruned more interesting (subsequent) interview: https://youtu.be/efC9QPLU5is

Another, in text form. Excerpt: The login [bogey] is simple. They are making it out to be some great key to nuclear secrets, which it is not. Until the first six months of 2019, we wrote our questions, signed and submitted. Even today I can do that. So whether Hiranandani or Adani or anybody paid me, nobody can tell. Then MPs were given NIC ids for the portal on which questions could be uploaded, etc. An important distinction is to be made here. As a Lok Sabha member, my email id is separate and that I have not, I repeat not, shared with anyone. The portal id, for all MPs, and I say this with emphasis, the practice is for secretarial and support staff and interns to use it to put up questions, etc. All MPs do this, the login is shared, it is not some great secret that will open some threat to national security. During the training of assistants and LAMP fellows that MPs get, this login is shared. This does not give you access to the RBI vaults. Had I been guilty of misuse and had I breached some state secret, they would not have taken me to the Ethics Committee, they would have invoked the NSA and put me in jail. ..

I won’t take his [i.e. Gautam Adani’s] call because I don’t want to sell out like the rest. He is pulling the biggest con job on this country and the people with the help of this government and I will continue to speak about it. This is a calling for me, not a job or something. I have nothing to sort out with Adani. My answer to the Lok Sabha MP was, whatever Adani needs to say, let him say publicly and to his shareholders, he doesn’t do side deals with me, that’s settled. I have nothing to sort out, there is nothing I have to talk to Mr Adani about. And if he thinks he has got me to shut up, he has another thing coming, he has really got another thing coming.

[T]his is the BJP, they can do anything, anything. But the Ethics Committee has no powers to do that. And how can it? And let Darshan come and depose too, he must be called. And then all this about gifts and rest will become clear, because if he has not given me shoes and bags, he won’t be able to prove it. He has never given me cash, he can’t manufacture proof. Poor chap, he is a businessman, they put a gun to his head and said sign this affidavit. Please understand he also has businesses in many BJP-ruled states.

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