New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the Prime Minister ‘inserted a weapon in our phones’, used it to ‘hit the soul of India’s democracy’ and now the government is trying to silence opposition demands for a discussion in Parliament.
Asserting that the allegations of snooping using Pegasus spyware were not about privacy but an ‘anti-national act and treason,’ the former Congress chief said ‘a united Opposition is not going anywhere’ until the government agreed to discuss the issue in Parliament.
“We just have one question. Has the Government of India bought Pegasus, yes or no? Did the government use Pegasus weapon on its own people, yes or no?,” he asked.
Rahul Gandhi was addressing reporters after a meeting of 14 opposition parties – a meeting to chalk out a strategy to take on the government over the Pegasus phone-hacking scandal, which has triggered protests in, and forced repeated adjournments of, the monsoon session of Parliament.