Shadow Correspondent
JAMMU, July 25:
Accusing the Union government of treason by compromising the national security through Pegasus spyware, District Congress Committee (DCC) Jammu Rural has demanded sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah besides demanding immediate probe into Pegasus spyware scam by a Supreme Court Judge appointed with the consent of opposition parties. It also castigated the Union Govt for failure to control inflation.
While addressing a meeting in Raipur Domana Constituency today, the former Minister Mula Ram criticized the BJP government at the centre for its failure to provide any succour to the general public amidst sky high prices of essential commodities including fuel prices besides the spine breaking inflation. He said that general public is suffering badly on account of economic slowdown, unemployment and unbridled inflation besides taking care of their families amid the deadly Corona pandemic. He said that the woes and miseries of the common man today are attributed to the wrong policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party Government at the Centre. Petrol and diesel prices are at all-time high having made history; LPG prices have doubled as compared to their prices before 2014 while the prices of vegetables, fruits, edible oils, pulses, eggs and other essentials are out of reach of the common man, he lamented.
Mula Ram asked the BJP government at the Centre to immediately initiate drastic measures in order to bring down the fuel prices as these have a direct impact on all the products.
Commenting on the Pegasus spyware issue, DCC Rural President, Hari Singh Chib accused the government of “treason” and compromising the national security and demanded sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah. Chib said “It’s not our phones; it’s our democracy which has been hacked! We have to reclaim the nation from this autocratic behaviour. Hacking into people’s phones and private lives, using that information for politics at tax payers’ expense is the greatest irony of our democracy”.
Chib demanded that the Centre orders an impartial investigation into the Pegasus spyware scam by a Supreme Court judge, who should be appointed with the consent of Opposition parties.
