New Delhi: The politics of the country has once again heated up regarding the Pegasus Spying Scandal. In fact, shocking claims have been made in a report by the American newspaper New York Times, the newspaper claims that the Modi government had made a defense deal with Israel in the year 2017. In the same deal, there was also a deal regarding Pegasus. The deal was done for two billion dollars. The opposition is attacking the Modi government since the report came.
Rahul Gandhi called it sedition
Rahul Gandhi has attacked the Modi government by tweeting. He wrote that the Modi government had bought Pegasus to spy on the primary institutions of our democracy, state leaders, and people. By tapping the phone, the ruling party, the opposition, the army, the judiciary have all been targeted. This is treason. The Modi government has committed treason.
Shiv Sena also rained on the Modi government
Shiv Sena has also attacked the central government regarding this report. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that when Pegasus was exposed, many leaders including Rahul Gandhi had spoken inside and outside Parliament and tried to bring out the facts. We had said that all of us are being monitored, BJP leaders are also being monitored. Our family’s bank accounts are being checked, phones are being tapped, this is not a democracy, but a shoddy type of Hitlerism.
India-Israel deal was done for 2 billion dollars
A report titled ‘The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon’ by ‘The New York Times’ also mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel in July 2017. This was the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Israel. Through this visit, PM Modi had given a message to the world that he is changing his attitude towards India Israel. During this visit of PM Modi, there was a defense deal between India and Israel. This deal was worth $ 2 billion.
The FBI also bought Pegasus
Let us inform you that a few months after PM Modi’s visit to Israel, the then Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu also visited India. After this, in 2019, India voted in support of Israel in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. According to the newspaper, the US investigative agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also bought and tested Pegasus, but decided not to use the software last year.
The report said the Israeli company NSO Group had been selling Pegasus software to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world for nearly a decade with the claim that no one else could do it.
this is the case
An international media association has reported that people all over the world are being monitored using Pegasus spyware. A list of verified mobile numbers of more than 300 people of India was also released on the target of surveillance. There was an uproar after this list came out. On the other hand, the Israeli company making spyware software had clearly said that it does not sell software to private institutions of any country. It supplies this to governments only for national security.
