Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday denounced reports that Pegasus spyware could have been used to snoop on journalists, politicians and activists, calling it an attempt “to malign Indian democracy and its well-established institutions”.
Both Shah and Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw hinted that the reports were timed to coincide with the start of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
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Shah released a statement, where attacking the Opposition for disrupting Parliament and raising the issue of Pegasus, he said, “In what seemed like perfect cue, late last evening we saw a report which has been amplified by a few sections with only one aim — to do whatever is possible and humiliate India at the world stage, peddle the same old narratives about our nation and derail India’s development trajectory.”