BJP couldn’t win polls despite might: TMC on Project Pegasus

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday lashed out at the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre after the names of party MP Abhishek Banerjee, and poll strategist Prashant Kishor featured in a list of Indians whose phones were either breached or might have been targeted for hacking with the help of an Israeli spyware. The TMC taunted the saffron party, saying it could not even win the state Assembly elections despite “hacking phones”.

An international consortium of media organisations has reported that more than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including those belonging to two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three Opposition leaders and one sitting judge, besides scores of businesspersons and activists,