Congress Rejects Centre’s Defence of Snooping

New Delhi: Dismissing the Centres defence of its order putting all computers under surveillance, the Congress on Friday demanded to know the reasons including what was the threat to the nation behind giving a “blanket authority” to Central agencies to snoop on all computers. Expressing alarm over the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order giving 10 Central agencies and the Delhi Police powers to “intercept, monitor and decrypt any information in any computer source”, the Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of turning India into a “police state” and a “surveillance state”. Taking to twitter, Congress President Rahul Gandhi called Modi an “insecure dictator”. “Converting India into a police state isn’t going to solve your problems, Modi Ji. It’s only going to prove to over 1 billion Indians what an insecure dictator you really are,” said Gandhi. (IANS)

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