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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Center during a conference at Cambridge University, alleging that an attack had been launched against the very fabric of Indian democracy and that Israeli spyware Pegasus was being used to spy on your phone. Gandhi claimed that intelligence officers had warned him to be "careful" when talking on the phone while his calls were being recorded. Congress leader and former adviser to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sam Pitroda, shared on Twitter the YouTube link of Rahul Gandhi's speech to Cambridge Judge Business School MBA students on "Learning to listen in the 21st century."
"I myself had Pegasus on my phone. Many politicians had Pegasus on their phones. What you're saying on the phone because we recorded the So that's the constant pressure we feel Cases against the opposition I have a number of criminal cases cases responsible for things that in no way should they be cases to be criminally responsible. That is what we are trying to defend," said the leader of Congress in his statements.
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In August last year, the Supreme Court-appointed committee to investigate allegations that the government used Pegasus for spying concluded that spyware had not been found on the 29 cell phones it examined, but malware was found on five phones. cell phones.
Reading the committee's report, the bank had said: "We are concerned about the technical committee's report... 29 phones were donated and five phones found malware, but the technical committee says Pegasus cannot be considered."
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that restrictions were being placed on the country's parliament, the press and the judiciary.
"Everyone knows and it has been in the headlines a lot that Indian democracy is under pressure and under attack. I am an opposition leader in India, we are navigating this (opposition) space. The institutional framework needed for a democracy: parliament, free press, judiciary, just the idea of mobilizing, of moving, they are all coerced. So we are facing an attack on the basic structure of Indian democracy," said the congressman.
Sharing a photo of himself in the presentation slide being seen being held by police personnel, the Congress leader claimed that opposition leaders had been 'locked up' in jail for 'simply standing' in front of Parliament to talk about some issues, alleging that such incidents occurred "relatively violently".
"In the Constitution, India is described as a Union of States, and this Union requires negotiations and talks. It is this negotiation that is attacked and threatened. You can see the photo taken in front of Parliament. The opposition leaders We Were there talking about some issues and they put us in jail. This happened 3 or 4 times. It happened in a relatively violent way. You also heard about the attacks on minorities and the press. You get an idea of what is happening, said Gandhi.
