Moitra filed the defamation case against Chaudhary in July. The case is related to a June 25 speech that Moitra gave in Parliament in which she listed seven signs of early fascism and how they applied to India. On July 4, Chaudhary alleged on his prime time show that Moitra’s speech was plagiarised from a Washington Monthly article published in January 2017. It was authored by Martin Longman, who had written it in the context of the American politics.