The Delhi Congress staged a protest at the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah against the alleged snooping on top politicians, Union Ministers, journalists, judiciary members and other prominent personalities by Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus spyware.
Congress Delhi unit president Anil Kumar along with a large number of party workers gathered at Rajaji Marg and demanded Home Minister’s resignation.
Party workers marched towards Amit Shah’s residence shouting slogans such as “Modi Teri Tanashahi Nahi Chalegi, Nahi Chalegi”, “Amit Shah Istifa Do, Istifa Do”, and were detained and taken to the Mandir Marg Police station.
Congress senior leaders Jai Kishan, Kunwar Karan Singh, Amrish Gautam, Anil Bhardwaj, Vijay Lochav, Veer Singh Dhingan, Rajesh Jain, Surender Kumar, DPCC vice president Ali Mehndi, Parvez Alam among others were detained. Kumar said that the police action, like snooping on prominent people using the Pegasus spyware, was an attack on the freedom and democratic rights of the people to protest against anti-people, anti-national activities.
Addressing party workers, Kumar said that the Government tried snooping on prominent citizens to hide its own failure.
“It is cheap politics to hack the phones of people which clearly establishes the insecurity and uncertainty dogging the ruling dispensation at the Centre. The Centre has been exposed on all fronts including failure in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.