Sharma

Rogue Labour MP Gaurav Sharma is accusing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of lying about when the caucus agreed to suspend him.

The Labour Party caucus is set to meet again since he was suspended. He's clearly a bright and talented person who had a lot to offer. Even this week, lying and saying there is no predetermination while she called the meeting, in which everybody was invited, except me," he said. That's sad." He would not say how many MPs had been in touch when asked. And then next day, presented as it is going to be a fair trial," Sharma said. never like to see these sorts of things happen. ["The mood of the room was very clear, but it certainly wasn't predetermined" - Labour MP Kieran McAnulty duration 5:24](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018854271/minister-for-emergency-visits-nelson) ["The mood of the room was very clear, but it certainly wasn't predetermined" - Labour MP Kieran McAnulty](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018854271/minister-for-emergency-visits-nelson) Asked if he would stay in Parliament if he was expelled from the Labour caucus, Sharma said "look, that's an option". Ardern has stressed the decision to suspend Sharma from the Labour caucus was not predetermined. The MP did not know at the time the phone call was being recorded, but Sharma said he had spoken to them since and they "don't have an issue with it." He alleged the caucus had agreed to suspend him during an informal meeting of Labour MPs, that he was not invited to, on Monday night.

The renegade MP was put on notice on Tuesday after the caucus unanimously suspended him over a lack of trust, according to the Prime Minister.

we certainly have made every effort to make sure there is support there and of course we're available". The Prime Minister announced Sharma's [suspension from caucus](https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/16/gaurav-sharma-suspended-from-labour-caucus-over-lack-of-trust/). He also provided a transcript of what he says is the 55 minute phone conversation to Newshub, but has not provided that to 1News. When I do provide the evidence gets, you know, spun around a different way and said, oh, this guy can't be trusted so you know you can't have it both ways." "We consider all reports of employment matters carefully and engage with a variety of processes and interventions when considering disputes ranging from informal to formal. That meeting was not a formal meeting, and I was also clear we would not have any predetermined outcome. "What I have been focused on is getting a fair trial. "As the Prime Minister said on Tuesday we anticipated Gaurav would continue re-litigating matters in this way. If you speak up in the Labour Party, if you speak up against the Prime Minister's office, you will be made an example. "I'm just trying to stand up for myself. "They're scared because, look at me, in the last week alone I've been made an example (of). A spokesperson for the Labour leader said the caucus will meet on Tuesday "to consider a motion to expel Gaurav Sharma from the caucus".

Dr Gaurav Sharma faces expulsion from the Labour Party after making several explosive allegations against the Prime Minister in an interview with Newshub on ...

Dissident MP Gaurav Sharma claims he is just trying to get justice despite being silenced. He's facing expulsion from the Labour party, after his suspensio.

- Publish Date - Fri, 19 Aug 2022, 8:03am - Author

A squall of fresh allegations from the suspended Labour MP at once invites an expulsion and an investigation. For 48 hours, Gaurav Sharma said essentially ...

At this week’s press conference, Ardern said the facts of the case weren’t in dispute, and it was accordingly more a matter for mediation than investigation. The New Zealand Council, Labour’s governing body, may have a role to play in the first part. To support his claims, he had secretly recorded a conversation with another MP, in which his colleague, by his account, confirmed he was the victim of a stitch-up. “This latest example of releasing and misrepresenting conversations with his colleagues reinforces that decision [to suspend],” said a spokesperson for the prime minister in response. He said, “the highest office in the country has refused for many, many months to listen to genuine concerns.” He accused the prime minister of complicity, of hypocrisy.

The Ombudsman should investigate Gaurav Sharma's claim that Labour MPs are being coached on how to deliberately subvert the Official Information Act”, ...

“This kind of behaviour is directly contrary to the purposes of the Official Information Act. The Ombudsman should investigate them.” This is not a Prime Minister's Office issue.

Suspended Labour MP Gaurav Sharma has - sadly - made things very difficult for himself, Minister Chris Hipkins says.

He He could remain as an independent for his Hamilton West electorate in the same way Jami-Lee Ross did after his exit from National, but Labour could also choose to make use of the waka-jumping legislation. Sharma says the senior MP was not aware he was recording their conversation, but now does not have an issue with it. The caucus will meet again next Tuesday to vote on whether to expel him permanently. [Sharma's expulsion from the party next week](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473099/labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-speaks-to-media-for-first-time-since-suspension). [also denied](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473116/jacinda-ardern-is-lying-labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-questions-pm-s-credibility) the claims Sharma's suspension had been predetermined. [suspended from Labour's caucus](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/472945/watch-labour-s-caucus-unanimously-agrees-to-suspend-mp-gaurav-sharma-pm-jacinda-ardern) on Tuesday, after an hours-long meeting he declined to attend which ostensibly was to decide his fate. [broke his silence last night](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473099/labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-speaks-to-media-for-first-time-since-suspension), saying he had secretly recorded a 55-minute phonecall with a senior Labour MP on Monday night following a meeting the entire caucus - apart from him - had been invited to. In that conversation, he claims, the MP told him several times the outcome was predetermined in that meeting. [accusing her of lying](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473116/jacinda-ardern-is-lying-labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-questions-pm-s-credibility) and again calling for an independent investigation into his accusations of bullying by party whips - and into the complaints about his own office.

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier has written to the Prime Minister after Dr Gaurav Sharma made allegations that Labour MPs were trained on how to circumvent the ...

The caucus will meet again next Tuesday to vote on whether to expel him permanently. Sharma says the senior MP was not aware he was recording their conversation, but now does not have an issue with it. What does seem predetermined now is Sharma's expulsion from the party next week. "You could be a real thorn in their side." "The Government ... But also, how not to get an OIA'd issue". In that conversation, he claims, the MP told him several times the outcome was predetermined in that meeting. She said the caucus felt he had broken their trust - the very reason for excluding him from the secret meeting on Monday, as MPs feared he would record the meeting being held via teleconferencing - and he had to earn it back. "In June 2016, 91.1 per cent of OIAs were completed on time compared with 97.3 per cent today and just 0.15 per cent of all OIA responses result in a finding of deficiency by the Ombudsman." The Prime Minister's office said in a statement it "both understands and acts in accordance with the OIA", in response to Boshier's concerns. "I am aware of the allegations made by Dr Sharma about the workshop advice and training given to Labour MPs on the Official Information Act," Boshier said. Sharma alleged part of the workshop included tips on how to not say "anything for which the Prime Minister has to stand up and do a media stand-up.

Watch: Labour's Dr Gaurav Sharma breaks silence, accusing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of 'cover-up', releases secret recording of MP. Credits: Video - Newshub ...

OPINION: Gaurav Sharma and many others seem to forget that politics is about trust and numbers. If you don't have either, you are toast.

The big difference is that Uffindell was given a blue-ribbon National Party seat, while Sharma was in a marginal seat and got swept in with [Jacinda Ardern’s landslide in 2020](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300135131/election-2020-jacinda-ardern-claims-biggest-labour-victory-in-50-years). [governor Adrian Orr suggested](https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129618086/orr-says-reserve-bank-getting-towards-point-where-next-rate-move-not-obvious), in an interview with Stuff, that there is a possibility New Zealand may be reaching the end of its interest-rates tightening cycle. It is a politically tough situation for the Government. For the past few months Labour’s message has been primarily a defensive one, and it has reacted with little bits and pieces. They work for you, not the parties or people in power. Whether you agree with it or not, National leader Christopher Luxon and deputy Nicola Willis are telling a much better story than National has for a long time, and the Opposition has favourable economic conditions. He also would have understood that in politics there is often a meeting, or lots of small meetings, before the main meeting, where people get together and try to sort out the result in advance. Wages growth outstripped inflation over the year at 8.8%, but it appears some of that growth at least was from an increase in hours worked. And Sharma will now all but certainly be expelled from the Labour caucus on Tuesday, at the latest, and probably from the party in due course. It is doubtful he has ever watched Rats in the Ranks, because if he had he would have known that he was a smaller bum than just about everyone else in the Labour Party. He declined to show up, of course, but that is no matter. In fact, every problem Sharma has seems to revolve around himself and resentment for how he was treated.

Gaurav Sharma … Gaurav Sharma … remind me? Up until last week, he was merely the widely-unknown Labour Party MP for Hamilton West. The high point of his ...

that there are grounds to invoke the procedures for creating a vacancy in the seat in the House.” This fact in itself “distort[s], and is likely to continue to distort, the proportionality of political party representation in Parliament as determined at the last general election.” And that’s important because it provides Jacinda Ardern, as Labour’s leader, the grounds to invoke the Political parties choosing who is and isn’t a part of their parliamentary team is so closely connected to the functioning of parliament that the principle of “comity” will warn courts away from interfering. And according to some guy called Toby Manhire who writes for an outfit called (checks notes) [The Spinoff](https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-08-2022/jacinda-ardern-now-has-little-choice-but-to-grant-gaurav-sharma-his-wish), “expulsion seems … He’s now claiming (and apparently has a recording of another Labour MP backing him up) that this Monday meeting shows Jacinda Ardern “had already made up her mind, as did the rest of the leadership, and the caucus” about what would happen to him on the Tuesday. Complicating things is the fact that the night before, all Labour’s MPs except Gaurav Sharma held a “not caucus” gathering that sounds like a vent session regarding his behaviour. [tour of the media this morning](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473116/jacinda-ardern-is-lying-labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-questions-pm-s-credibility), during which he accused Jacinda Ardern of outright lying, another caucus meeting has been called for next Tuesday. On Tuesday, Labour’s caucus met and voted to, in effect, suspend Gaurav Sharma from the party caucus “club”. It’s also notable that the media reporting on all of this has been careful to state how little concrete detail there is to back up what Gaurav Sharma is saying, even in terms of off-the-record confirmations from others. He just can’t come along to the party caucus meetings or share in its decision-making or attend the warm-white-wine-and-cheese-dip socials every Thursday evening. The latter role is governed by the caucus’ own rules, including when and how your membership of caucus can be taken away from you. He has become the much more well-known “suspended” Labour Party MP for Hamilton West, following a series of highly public claims alleging intra-party bullying, misuse of public funds, gaslighting, and Satanic rituals being held on the Beehive’s 9th floor every full moon.

Dr Gaurav Sharma walked through the mean streets at his accustomed hour of 3.15am. His hands were plunged deep into the pockets of his trench coat, ...

It was the fact he was naked. There was a knock at the door. "She's a liar!" He was a strange fellow. They were taken to the remains of the former World War II internment camp, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern paced the room and eyed them carefully. Overlooking it was the bridge and sitting in the bridge command throne was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. "I am running," he thought, "hot and cold." It wasn't what he was saying. "Oh my God," he said out loud. Somewhere along Lambton Quay a secret message would be revealed on one of the shop windows. "We have a situation with Sharma," she said. His hands were plunged deep into the pockets of his trench coat, and he had pulled the collar up around his ears.

Speaking to Newshub Nation this morning, Sharma reiterated his claim of being bullied by Labour Whip Kieran McAnulty, revealing the contents of a letter he ...

"The Government ... They don't want to investigate someone." A statement from the Prime Minister's office provided to the Herald said it was known from the start Sharma met with and wrote to the chief of staff. In a statement to the NZ Herald, the PM's office said it "both understands and acts in accordance with the OIA." Sharma told Newshub he wrote the letter as he was determined to create a paper trail – and the Labour Party was determined not to. Embattled Labour MP Dr Gaurav Sharma has doubled and tripled down on his allegations of bullying in Parliament, saying he was called in "day after day" and told he was a "terrible MP".

Newshub Nation can reveal new details of a letter sent by backbench Labour MP Gaurav Sharma to the Prime Minister's chief of staff.

The action from the Chief Ombudsman comes after Sharma alleged MPs were trained in methods to avoid information being obtained through OIA requests.

"The Government ... In a statement to the NZ Herald, the PM's office said it "both understands and acts in accordance with the OIA." "I have written to the Prime Minister to seek her assurance that she, along with her Ministers, MPs and staff understand their obligations under the OIA and apply the right processes when handling official information and responding to requests."