Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm amid Opposition ruckus

The slogan was in Hindi.Trinamool Congress TMC members alleged that party MP Abhishek Banerjees phone number was selected for surveillance.Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.YSRCP members also flagged the issue of special status for Andhra Pradesh.Speaker Om Birla said it is not right to disrupt the House and the government is ready to give answers on any matter.


PTI | New Delhi | Updated: 20-07-2021 12:41 IST | Created: 20-07-2021 12:38 IST
Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm amid Opposition ruckus
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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday after the Opposition created a ruckus over various issues, including the Pegasus snooping controversy.

Opposition members, including from the Congress and the TMC, started raising slogans and showing placards to attack the government on the snooping issue as soon as the House met for the day at 11 am. The proceedings lasted for barely five minutes.

One of the placards read that while people are suffering from unemployment, the government is busy with ''jasoosi'' (spying). The slogan was in Hindi.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) members alleged that party MP Abhishek Banerjee's phone number was selected for surveillance.

Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

YSRCP members also flagged the issue of special status for Andhra Pradesh.

Speaker Om Birla said it is not right to disrupt the House and the government is ready to give answers on any matter. ''Please go back to your seats. I will facilitate a debate on every issue. (But) sloganeering is not right. The government is ready to debate on whatever issues you want to debate on,'' he said. The issue of ''snooping'' using Pegasus spyware has snowballed into a massive political row in Parliament and outside as various parties are demanding a thorough investigation and sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah, while the government maintains it had nothing to do with it.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, BJP ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prahlad Singh Patel, as also former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and poll strategist Prashant Kishor were among those whose phone numbers were listed as potential targets for hacking through an Israeli spyware sold only to government agencies, an international media consortium has reported.

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