Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday asked whether the Congress and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will now apologise now as the panel report in the case said there was no conclusive evidence of the spyware in the 29 phones that were investigated. It was all a part of a motivated campaign to weaken the Modi government, the BJP leader said. "If you want to oppose us, then do that in elections. But there you are losing one election after another and their defeat will continue in the coming days as well," the BJP leader said. Recalling the attack of the Congress leader over the issue, RS Prasad said, "Rahul Gandhi had said Pegasus is an attempt to crush democracy."
"It is not in Rahul Gandhi's nature to apologise. What happened when he ran the 'Chowkidar...' campaign? I can't even utter what he said. Our politics is not low-level politics," RS Prasad said.
The BJP leader referred to the 'Chewing gum' gate of 2011 and said the Congress has no authority to preach to BJP on snooping. "I am very sorry to refer to former finance minister Pranab Mukerjee, whose office was bugged by the Congress. It was known as the chewing gum gate. Remember?" RS Prasad said.
"The problem of Rahul Gandhi, his party and his associates, NGOs is that they have so much animosity towards our PM that they resort to falsehood to expand their party. The moment the falsehood explodes, the party shrinks further," RS Prasad said.
"Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi must remember that democracy shines on the base of well-defined norms of the public life, not lies," RS Prasad said adding that Pegasus row was only an addition to the campaign against Modi over Rafale, Central Vista.
{{/usCountry}}"Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi must remember that democracy shines on the base of well-defined norms of the public life, not lies," RS Prasad said adding that Pegasus row was only an addition to the campaign against Modi over Rafale, Central Vista.
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