Updated: September 14, 2020 1:59:44 pm
The leader of Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Taking note of the Indian Express Research, Congress tried on Monday to find out if the government led by Narendra Modi was aware of Chinese surveillance on more than 10,000 Indians and demanded that a clear message be sent to Beijing to prevent them from indulging in such activities.
Vigilance takes on importance as an increasingly assertive China is caught in a simmering showdown with India along the Royal Line of Control in Ladakh and is pressing against many of its neighbors in the region and beyond.
On Twitter, the party’s spokesman, Randeep Singh Surjewala, wondered why the Center had not yet resolved the border dispute that broke out in May this year.
“If the report is true, then a) was the Modi government aware of this serious case? Or didn’t they know they were being spied on? b) Why doesn’t the government protect our borders over and over again? c) it is necessary to send a clear message to China to prevent them from engaging in such activities, ”he posted on the microblogging site.
A Shenzhen-based technology company with ties to the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China is monitoring more than 10,000 Indian individuals and organizations in its global “foreign targets” database, an investigation by The Indian Express revealed.
अगर यह सही है तो-
-क्या मोदी सरकार को इस गंभीर मामले का पहले पता था? या भारत सरकार को पता ही नहीं चला की हमारी मुखबरी हो रही है?
-भारत सरकार देश के सामरिक हितों की सुरक्षा करने में बार-बार फेल क्यों हो रही है?
-चीन को अपनी हरकतों से बाज़ आने का स्पष्ट संदेश देना चाहिए। pic.twitter.com/j5lmK5G1Lf
– Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) September 14, 2020
The range of targets in India identified and monitored in real time by Zhenhua Data Information Technology Co. Limited is wide, both in breadth and depth.
From President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Acting President of Congress Sonia Gandhi and their families; Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee, Ashok Gehlot and Amarinder Singh to Uddhav Thackeray, Naveen Patnaik and Shivraj Singh Chouhan; Cabinet Ministers Rajnath Singh and Ravi Shankar Prasad to Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani and Piyush Goyal; Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Singh Rawat up to at least 15 former army chiefs, Navy and Air Force; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, Sharad Bobde, and Brother Justice AM Khanwilkar, of Lokpal Justice PC Ghose, and Comptroller and Auditor General GC Murmu; Startup tech entrepreneurs like Nipun Mehra, founder of Bharat Pe (an Indian payment app), and Ajay Trehan of AuthBridge, an authentication technology company, to leading industrialists Ratan Tata and Gautam Adani.
Not just influential individuals in the political and official establishment, the Indians being monitored cross disciplines. They include bureaucrats in key positions; judges; scientists and academics; journalists; actors and athletes; religious figures and activists. And even hundreds accused of financial crimes, corruption, terrorism and smuggling of narcotics, gold, weapons or wildlife.
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