Pegasus is worse than Emergency: Mamata
The Hindu
“In the name of democracy, dangerous autocracy is going on”
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised the Pegasus Spyware controversy for the second day in a row on Thursday. Instead of giving a statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are targeting those raising the issue before the public, she said. “In the name of democracy, dangerous autocracy is going on. Pegasus is worse than Emergency,” Ms. Banerjee told journalists at the State Secretariat. She condemned the Income Tax raids on the Dainik Bhaskar Group and said the country could not be run on ‘Jumlabazi’ [rhetoric]. “Even if you are able to record everything, you cannot change the truth.”
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