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In a hard-hitting statement, Shah said that the report about the alleged snooping has been amplified by a few whose only aim is to do whatever is possible to humiliate India at the world stage.
”This is a report by the disrupters for the obstructers. Disrupters are global organisations that do not like India to progress.
”Obstructers are political players in India who do not want India to progress. People of India are very good at understanding this chronology and connection,” he said.
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Opposition parties on Monday hit out at the government over the alleged phone-tapping of prominent personalities in the country using Israeli Pegasus spyware and demanded an independent judicial or parliamentary committee probe. An international media consortium reported Sunday that more than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders and one sitting judge besides scores of businesspersons and activists in India could have been targeted for hacking through the Israeli spyware sold only to government agencies.
Shah said those who intend to derail India’s progress are peddling the same old narratives about the country.
”To see the rudderless Congress, jump on to this bandwagon is not unexpected. ”They have a good past experience in trampling over democracy and with their own house not in order, they are now trying to derail anything progressive that comes up in Parliament,” he said.