Anti-national, ban Amnesty, damaging ambiance: How BJP CMs, previous and current, responded to expenses
Several BJP Chief Ministers Tuesday defended the federal government within the wake of the Pegasus scandal, and focused the Congress for stalling the home. A have a look at what some stated:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Adityanath stated opposition events had been making a “negative” ambiance and stalling the Parliament proceedings over the Pegasus controversy. He additionally demanded that they apologise.
He stated the the Opposition’s “negative attitude” didn’t enable points on the frequent folks to be raised in Parliament.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
Criticising the Opposition Congress for “unnecessarily” creating an issue over the Pegasus adware earlier than the beginning of the Monsoon Session, Rupani stated the get together has an “anti-national mindset”. A launch from the chief minister’s workplace quoted Rupani as saying, “By becoming an instrument in the hands of foreign forces, Congress is damaging the reputation of the country.”
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
The BJP-led authorities, which helmed the state from 2014 to 2019, by no means availed the providers of NSO Group — the Israeli agency behind the adware Pegasus — for phone-tapping, chief of the Opposition within the state legislative meeting Fadnavis stated on Tuesday.
Terming allegations made by the Congress and the NCP as baseless, Fadnavis stated, “During my tenure as Chief Minister of Maharashtra, we had never availed the services of NSO.”
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
Sarma demanded a ban on human rights group Amnesty International’s actions in India for its position within the Pegasus controversy. The BJP chief additionally claimed that the complete controversy was an “worldwide conspiracy by the Left-wing organisations, together with Amnesty International, “to defame the Centre.