Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has filed a criminal defamation case against Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor-in-Chief of Zee News, for alleging that her Lok Sabha speech on the 'Seven Signs of Fascism' was plagiarised.
Moitra’s speech, delivered on 25 June in the lower house of Parliament, had gone viral and generated a lot of commentary. Despite Moitra citing the source of her information regarding the “seven signs” during the speech, Sudhir Chaudhary had accused her of plagiarism.