The Congress on Monday demanded the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah following the allegations against the Modi Government regarding the espionage scandal on politicians including their leader Rahul Gandhi, top bureaucrats, judges, industrialists and journalists and media organisations.

The Congress tried to corner the Government both in and out of Parliament terming the entire issue a case of sedition for which the Central Government must be held accountable. The party also held a Press conference addressed by leader of the party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge.

Taking to social media, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said,  “We know what he’s been reading — everything on your phone.” His tweet was a quote of an earlier post of his, in which he had written: “I’m wondering what you guys are reading these days.”

The party expressed its deep resentment over the latest revelations that the telephones of Rahul and his staff members were also hacked. The telephone of Ashok Lavasa, Chief Election Commissioner was also selected for illegal surveillance and snooping.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala called the Government as “Tapingjeevi and Abki Baar Jasoos Sarkar.” Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor said the issue was a matter of national security concern and should be investigated independently as along with political opponents, now journalists, judges, industrialists, own senior most ministers and even the leadership of RSS have not been spared, you have.  Kharge said the Modi Government is the deployer and executor of this illegal and unconstitutional snooping and spying racket through Israeli surveillance software 'Pegasus'.

"And the person responsible for it is none less than the Home Minister of India who could not have done without the consent and concurrence of Modi. This is an unforgivable sacrilege and negation of Constitutional oath by the Home Minister and the Prime Minister," Kharge alleged.