'Saheb has MA in entire snooping': Congress trolls Modi on Pegasus reports

Rahul appeared to have been building up a narrative to target the Modi government

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R The Congress and its affiliates have begun targeting the Narendra Modi government over news reports on Sunday that an Israeli spyware sold only to state agencies had been used to hack phones of numerous people in the country, including Union ministers and journalists.

The reports were brought out by multiple international publications and The Wire in India, which were media partners to an investigation conducted by Paris-based media non-profit organisation Forbidden Stories and rights group Amnesty International. The reports revealed the Pegasus software was used to target more than 50,000 phone numbers across the world.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appeared to have been building up a narrative on Twitter to target the Modi government. On Sunday, Rahul revealed he had liked a book, The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho, and asked his followers what they were reading. On Monday, Rahul tweeted, "We know what he’s been reading- everything on your phone!" and used the hashtag Pegasus.