Pegasus Spyware Scandal: New revelations are being made in the case of spying from the Israeli spyware Pegasus. According to the report of the English news website ‘The Wire’, before the Congress-JDA (S) government of Karnataka was toppled in 2019 and during the entire political turmoil, the phones of many prominent leaders of the alliance or their close people were included in the list of Pegasus. Were. Prominent leaders or people close to them who have been claimed to be included in the list of number Pegasus include big leaders like the then Chief Minister of the state HD Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the then Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara.
According to the report, the phone number included in this list is likely to be the target of Pegasus’s hacking attack. However, without a forensic audit of the mobile phones or other devices on which these numbers were being used, it cannot be said with certainty whether their hacking was successful or unsuccessful.
According to the report, the leaked database shared by non-profit French organization Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International with 16 media partners also contains the phone number of the then Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader G Parameshwara. Apart from them, the numbers of private secretaries of the then Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and former CM Siddaramaiah have also been claimed in this suspicious database. ‘The Wire’ has said that without forensic investigation, it cannot be confirmed whether information was leaked from his phone or not. But the days when the Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka was in trouble, the phone calls of these leaders are likely to be the target of spyware attacks.
Amit Shah on target of Congress
Congress has attacked the central government after this report. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that the help of Pegasus spyware was taken to topple the government of Karnataka. In such a situation, does the Home Minister have the right to remain in the post? The Modi government has abducted democracy and dismembered democracy through Operation Kamal. He said that its chronology is that horse-trading was done to topple the elected government and Pegasus was used in it.
JD(S)-Congress government fell in 14 months
In 2019, the coalition government of HD Kumar Swamy’s Janata Dal Secular (JD-S) and Congress was toppled in Karnataka in just 14 months. The Congress, JDS had alleged that the BJP had tried hard to topple their government. Ultimately, Kumaraswamy missed the vote of confidence in the House by six votes. In the majority test, 20 coalition MLAs were absent. Kumaraswamy got 99 votes. Whereas 105 votes were cast against him. After the resignation of Kumaraswamy, the BJP government was formed under the leadership of BS Yediyurppi and the MLAs who had broken the alliance during the trust vote later joined the BJP.
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