Monsoon session: Govt, Opposition parties refuse to budge on Pegasus

Further disruption of Parliament’s Monsoon Session appeared inevitable with both the government and the Opposition digging into their respective positions.

At a breakfast meeting hosted by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the Opposition parties spelt out the bottom line: If the government wants to run the rest of the session, it will have to agree to a debate on Pegasus, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi renewed his attack on the Opposition, terming repeated adjournments forced by it “an insult to the Constitution… to democracy and to the public”, suggesting there is no change in the government’s stance — that the Pegasus issue is irrelevant.