PM must make statement in Parliament, clarify whether snooping was done: Chidambaram on Pegasus row

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament clarifying whether the Pegasus snooping allegations were investigated.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said the government should either call for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the Pegasus snooping allegations or request the Supreme Court to appoint a sitting judge to investigate the matter, and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament clarifying whether there had been surveillance or not. The former home minister said he was not sure that one can go to the extent of saying that the entire electoral mandate of 2019 was vitiated by the "unlawful snooping" but added that it may have "helped" the BJP to score that victory which has been "tainted" by the allegations.