New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, on Sunday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of disrupting the last meeting of the panel on July 28, saying they did not want Pegasus related The allegations should be discussed. .
He said the officers who were to testify “appears to have been instructed not to appear”.
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However, the former Union minister expressed hope that the matter of espionage would be taken up by the panel at a later stage.
Putting the blame on the BJP for the impasse in Parliament, Tharoor accused the ruling party of “turning the temple of democracy into a rubber stamp for its agenda or worse, a notice board announcing its unilateral decisions”.
Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks by the opposition of insulting Parliament, he said the government’s refusal to be accountable in any way, shape, or form on an issue of national and international importance has “made a joke”. . The government claims to represent democracy and common Indians”.
Tharoor said the IT committee has been discussing data privacy and security of citizens and cyber security for two years. The previous president is also involved in his agenda under BJP’s Anurag Thakur.
“It is no secret that the committee meeting on its established agenda was disrupted by BJP members who did not want Pegasus to be discussed. It was unprecedented for 10 members to participate in refusing to give quorum to the committee and signing the register,” PTI quoted Tharoor as saying in an interview.
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The Congress leader, who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to take action on the ministry officials who did not attend the panel meeting, insisted that the action of three officials making “last-minute excuses” to skip the meeting was one”. serious attack”. Privileges of such panel to call witnesses.
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