In a three-page affidavit submitted Thursday to the committee and launched to the press by the Hiranandani Group’s company communication staff, Darshan Hiranandani, who resides in Dubai, mentioned Moitra “thought that the only way to attack Sh. Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is by attacking Sh. Gautam Adani and his group as both were contemporaries, and they belong to the same state of Gujarat.”

The affidavit comes days after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote two letters — one to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla claiming there are allegations that Moitra took bribes to guard the curiosity of the Hiranandani Group, and the opposite to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to analyze the IP addresses of Moitra’s log-in credentials for Lok Sabha to examine if that they had been accessed by another person.

Hiranandani, in his affidavit, mentioned, “Ms. Moitra drafted a few questions that would have elements to embarrass the Government by targeting the Adani group; questions that she could raise in Parliament. She shared with me her email ID as Member of Parliament, so that I could send her information, and she could raise the questions in the Parliament. I went along with her proposal.”

“She… requested me to keep supporting her in her attacks on the Adani group and provided me her Parliament login and password so that I could post the questions directly on her behalf when required,” he acknowledged within the affidavit.

In a press launch late at night time, Moitra, who known as Darshan “a dear friend”, claimed, “They were threatened with a total shutdown of all their businesses… They were told they will be finished, the CBI would raid them and all government businesses would stop and all PSU bank financing would be stopped immediately.”

She famous that three days in the past (October 16), the Hiranandani Group put out an official press launch stating that each one prices levelled towards them had been “baseless”. “Today, an ‘approver affidavit’ has been leaked to the press… This affidavit is on a white piece of paper with no letterhead…,” she identified.

In an announcement to The Indian Express on Tuesday, the Hiranandani Group had mentioned, “We have always been in the business of business and not in the business of politics. Our group has always worked with the government in the interest of the nation and will continue doing so,” a spokesperson for the Hiranandani Group had mentioned.

In his affidavit, Hiranandani additionally claimed that Moitra was “getting help from other people like Sucheta Dalal… who were feeding her with all kinds of unverified information relating to Sh. Gautam Adani and his companies”.

In response to social media posts on Hiranandani’s affidavit, Dalal, a journalist and Managing Editor of MoneyLife, mentioned on X, “…the very fact that he (Darshan Hiranandani) has named me makes this whole letter and his ‘solemn’ statements a farce… I don’t know @MahuaMoitra – and I think she can confirm it. The question of helping her simply does not arise, NOR did she EVER reach out and ask me for any help either!”

Earlier, Moitra, after Dubey’s letter to the IT Minister, had requested the federal government to launch location and log-in particulars of all MPs together with their name element data. “All parliamentary work of MPs done by PAs, assistants, interns, large teams. Respected @ashwinivaishnaw please release details of location & login details of ALL MPs with CDRs. Please release info on training given to staff to login,” she had mentioned in a put up on X.

In his affidavit, Hiranandani additionally claimed Moitra made frequent calls for of him and stored asking him for varied favours, which he mentioned he “had to fulfil in order to remain in close proximity with her and get her support”.

“The demands that were made and favours that were asked included, gifting her expensive luxury items, providing support on renovation of her officially allotted bungalow in Delhi, travel expenses, holidays, etc, apart from providing secretarial and logistical help for her travels within India and to different parts of the world. I could ill-afford to displease her,” he acknowledged within the affidavit.