Leader KS Alagiri leads a protest rally near the Rajiv Gandhi statue in Chhinnamalai towards the Governor’s Bhavan.
The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) on Thursday staged a protest demanding a judicial inquiry into the alleged spyware use of Pegasus spyware on political leaders, members of the judiciary, activists and journalists.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, BJP ministers Ashwini Vaishnav and Prahlad Singh Patel, and election strategist Prashant Kishor are among those whose phone numbers are only listed as potential targets of hacking through Israeli spyware sold to government agencies. and was reported by the International Media Association. on Monday.
TNCC president KS Alagiri, who led the protest near the Raj Bhavan, demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet should step down in view of the “serious threat to national security from the Pegasus spyware row”.
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“Union Home Minister Amit Shah should have resigned taking moral responsibility for the espionage incident,” he said.
In the current situation, the talks of the Indian Army Chief are likely to reach
China or Pakistan. “Then our soldiers may shed their blood (in case of conflict) but it may be difficult to win,” Alagiri claimed.
So the Narendra Modi government should resign immediately.
On Monday, Shah hit out at the Congress and international organizations for accusing politicians, journalists and others of surveillance, saying such “barriers” and “barriers” only aim to humiliate India on the world stage.
Earlier today, Congress members tried to march towards the Raj Bhavan raising slogans against the BJP-led Center over the issue, but were stopped by the police at a nearby barricading area.
Former TNCC presidents, party legislators and others participated in the protest march demanding a Supreme Court judge’s inquiry into the episode since it undermined the country’s security and privacy of individuals.
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