Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday over his claim of being spied on through the Israeli spyware Pegasus. Chouhan said that Pegasus is not in his phone, rather it is in the mind of the Congress leader.
News agency ANI quoted Chouhan as saying, "Pegasus is not in the phone, it is in the mind of Rahul Gandhi. Pegasus has entered the DNA of Congress. I pity his (Rahul Gandhi) intelligence. He goes to foreign countries and makes statements against our country. He talks anti-India by going to foreign embassies. It is a new agenda of the Congress to defame India in foreign countries."
He added that what Gandhi did viz. criticising the nation abroad is an anti-national step and the people of this country will never forgive him.
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Rahul Gandhi At Cambridge
Gandhi was invited to deliver a lecture at Cambridge University where he claimed that he was warned by intelligence officers to be 'careful' of what he speaks over calls as his conversations were being recorded, reported ANI.
"I had Pegasus on my phone. A large number of politicians had Pegasus on their phones. I have been called by intelligence officers who told me, 'Please be careful about what you are saying on the phone because we are sort of recording the stuff'. So this is the constant pressure that we feel. Cases on the opposition. I have got a number of criminal liable cases for things that should under no circumstances be criminal liable cases. That's what we are trying to defend," he said.
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