Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on Wednesday join other opposition leaders to submit a joint adjournment motion in Lok Sabha for a discussion on the Pegasus snooping controversy in the “presence of the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) and/or (Union) Home minister (Amit Shah)”.
Leaders of 10 opposition parties met on Tuesday and decided to move the joint notice as a part of a united strategy to counter the government over the alleged snooping. “...there will be better coordination among all of us as the government does not want to discuss the matter at all. We will now be giving joint adjournment notices in Lok Sabha,’’ said one of the leaders, requesting anonymity.
Gandhi, Kanimozhi (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham), Nationalist Congress Party’s Supriya Sule, Arvind Sawant of the Shiv Sena, Hasnain Masoodi (National Conference), and Bahujan Samaj Party’s Ritesh Pandey were among those who attended the meeting.
Congress lawmakers Mallikarjun Kharge and Manickam Tagore have submitted similar adjournment motions earlier.
The Pegasus row erupted on August 18 before the beginning of Parliament’s ongoing monsoon session after an international investigative consortium reported that many Indian ministers, politicians, activists, businessmen, and journalists were potentially targeted by the Israeli company NSO Group’s phone hacking software Pegasus. A forensic analysis of 10 of the targets proved they had been hacked or that there had been attempts to do so.
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