No evidence linking govt, BJP to Pegasus: Former minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad spoke on the Pegasus spyware row and said there was not an iota of evidence linking the government and the BJP with the Pegasus.

Former Union information and technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday dismissed any link between the Narendra Modi-led government and the Pegasus spyware. “There is no shred of evidence to link Pegasus with either the government or the BJP,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Can we deny that bodies like Amnesty had a declared anti-India agenda in many ways? They withdrew from India when we asked them about their foreign funding as per law. pic.twitter.com/w0JkaOtgMT Our IT Minister confirmed today that for lawful interceptions of a phone can only be made as per relevant rules under provisions of Section 5 of Indian Telegraph Act along with the permission of Home Secretary of the centre or Home Secretary of the state. pic.twitter.com/P5FuAFx5cc The senior BJP leader attacked the Congress over comments accusing the Central government of snooping. Refuting all allegations, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Congress’s remarks were “baseless and bereft of propriety.”