New Delhi: BJP on Thursday claimed that the story of the alleged reconnaissance through Spyware Pegasus Israel was “formulated, made-made and lack of evidence” and that a new report was based on “defamation”.
Minister of Uni and BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi cited the report to claim that Amnesty International, Human Rights Groups related to Pegasus Projects, has denied the existence of a list of convincing target potential suspected.
Overcoming a press conference at the BJP head office here, he accused that the “fake” list like a cellphone number collection taken from the yellow page and they have been used for “Yellow Journalism”.
He refers to news reports on suspicion of peeping people, including politicians and journalists, in India and several countries.
Amnesty International said in a statement that it was “firmly firm” by the findings of Pegasus Project and confirmed that the data was illegally related to the potential target of the NSO-based Pegasus Spyware Group based in Israel.
Comments by Amnesty International came after several media reports citing several Israeli journalists said that the human rights group had claimed that never said that the telephone number recently leaked specifically was a list of numbers targeted by Pegasus Spyware.
Lekhi told reporters that 10 countries have been crowned as a place where this spyware is used and exposed to opposition parties, including Congress and TMC, showing that the rival party of other countries has not behaved in India.
The opposition parties have a jammed process in Parliament, accusing the involvement of the Modi Government in the alleged reconnaissance, following the report that nearly 300 cellphone numbers including journalists, activists, opposition leaders and even two ministers from India think in this potential Snooping target list by NSO.
Who sells its spyware pegasus only for “vetting” government and government institutions.
He claimed, “This is not a story.
This is not a starter around the world because based on the story made-made, made, no one does the story.
Because the story itself calls for forgery and good name.
Data leaked.
Violation and that leads to further complications for people who base their stories on leaked data.
It only happens in India.
“” The story published is based on the list of numbers available in any directory.
Second, Amnesty International has denied this.
Company (NSO ) Those who produce Pegasus have said that this claim is not bound and does not count with the basis of their customers, “he said.
Claiming that the Pegasus line is related to the Parliamentary Committee report, which is headed by it and checks the personal data protection bill, he said it was handed over to Lok Sabha’s speaker and was ready to be adopted by parliament.
“Data protection will be law and.
It is directly related to it.
This is to weaken Indian institutions that such stories are floating,” he said.
NSO, the Israeli company behind spyware, has denied such a list, Amnesty International has “denied” this but the opposition disrupts parliament, he said, claiming that such a narrative was built repeatedly to damage India.
The government creates “new ecosystems” to secure the rights of Indians and rights, and the row is intended to damage it, he added.
“This kind of stories floats to weaken Indian institutions and stop data protection set to become land law.
This is to reduce the public about the credibility of the structure and slander our country’s image,” the alleged Lekhi.
Asked about opposition requests if the government has used spyware, he said such security information was classified as the government had to deal with terrorists and Maoists.
“I can’t tell you about what software I’m working on.
This will amount to help terrorists.
Congress first must clarify whether it is with terrorists,” he said.
Asked whether the previous government might buy it, he said these things “exceed their salary value”.
Onus to prove is to those who have created such a list, he said in replying other questions.
The BJP leader also condemned the opposition to grab a paper from the Minister of Communication and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw at Rajya Sabha and tore it when he would make a statement about alleged Snooping Row.
Congress and TMC “bent” to a new low, he said.
Pegasus Snooping Story ‘Crochted, Fabrication, Proof-less’: BJP
