Will not allow Parliament to function till PM Modi’s statement on Pegasus controversy: TMC | India News – Times of India

New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress (TMC) has decided that it will not allow Parliament Any other issue to raise till PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah speak on Pegasus detective line and allow proper discussion on it in the House.
TMC members held a parliamentary strategy meeting on Thursday morning, which was attended by the party’s new general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. The phone number of Abhishek, who is Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, is on the list of possible espionage targets. Pegasus spyware.
“We want nothing less than answers from the Prime Minister and the Home Minister as this issue is of serious importance. In the next 48 hours, we believe more names of potential hacking targets by Pegasus are expected to emerge. This is not a case where the IT minister can make a statement and get over it… Even the Watergate scandal looks small in comparison,” TMC Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien said in a statement here on Thursday. Said in a press conference.
“We want the House to run, but nothing is more important than the issue of espionage, which has nothing to do with national security. Hacking and spying on media, political opponents, Supreme Court judges, activists. We want a simple yes or no answer to ‘Did you use Pegasus,'” O’Brien said.
TMC’s chief whip in Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said, “He and two other party MPs have been giving notice under Rule 267 in the Upper House since day one to discuss the Pegasus issue, but it was not considered.”
“Prime Minister and Home Minister tell us who got employed” NSORoy said in the press conference.
“Now it seems that the 2019 elections were also rigged with the same espionage as it has been proved in Bengal that BJP did not have enough public support to win 18 seats,” he said.
“Former IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the House last year that the issue of espionage was taken up with the Israeli authorities, which means the government is aware of it,” Roy said.
Roy also said that in Thursday’s Rajya Sabha Business Advisory Committee meeting, TMC members have said that three controversial agriculture laws should be repealed before any discussion on farmers’ issues can be taken up for discussion in the House.
The monsoon session has already been disrupted on the issue since the day Parliament opened on July 19.
Earlier today, a TMC MP snatched papers from the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnav in the Rajya Sabha and tore them up as the minister was about to make a statement on the alleged espionage controversy using the Israeli spyware Pegasus.

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