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Congress, BJP again flay AAP government on snooping issue
New Delhi, May 31
The Congress and Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday again took strong exception to the AAP
government's alleged plans to buy high-end snooping equipment.
"Snooping
is bad. Snooping on private individuals is bad. Be it AAP or BJP, we
are against any such snooping. Private lives of individuals should be
respected and not be allowed to be encroached on by any person or any
authority," Congress spokesman Ajay Maken told Times Now.
Speaking
on the alleged plans to procure the snooping equipment by the Kejriwal
government, Maken said: "We have always stressed that there should be
definite protocols before such high-end equipment are handed over to any
section of the government."
He also accused the Aam Aadmi Party of having "different rules for different people".
"The
AAP, what we have seen, sets different rules for different people. For
themselves, they set different rules and for others different laws," the
Congress leader said.
Joining issues, BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli also slammed the AAP government on the issue.
"You
cannot tap anybody's phone without the home secretary's permission.
Delhi is the capital of India and has central government, Election
Commission, the Supreme Court, parliament and the embassies. Why this
eagerness to set up these interceptor vehicles? What is there they want
to know," Kohli asked while talking to Times Now.
"While he (Arvind Kejriwal) is elected as chief minister, he wants to act like an Intelligence Bureau chief," he said.
Earlier,
a TV news report claimed that the Delhi government was planning to buy
snooping equipment to enhance surveillance capabilities of the Delhi
anti-corruption branch. However, AAP government had denied the report.
"There
is no proposal by the Delhi government to procure anything called
snooping equipment and no such cabinet note has been circulated," AAP
spokesperson Nagendra Sharma had tweeted.