Pigasus row: Why target just India? asks Prasad

Senior BJP leader and former union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has questioned why only India is being "targeted" for the use of the spyware when 45 nations are using it. "The NSO, which is the manufacturer of Pegasus, has clearly said that its clients are mostly Western nations. So why is India being targetted in this matter? What is the story behind this? What is the twist in the tale?" Prasad added. "Can we deny that bodies like Amnesty have an anti-India agenda?" he said, referring to the Amnesty International which had released the lists along with  Paris-based media non-profit Forbidden Stories, on which multiple media organisations in India and abroad had conducted detailed investigations.

Denying any role of government yet again, Prasad said, "There not a shred of evidence in the entire Pegasus story that there is any linkage of the government or the BJP". As per media report, most of the numbers identified in the alleged list of possible targets are from India, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Denying any role of government yet again, Mr Prasad said, "There not a shred of evidence in the entire Pegasus story that there is any linkage of the government or the BJP".