MP Supriya Sule under Pegasus watch: NCP(SP); hints IT notices come after her speeches

MUMBAI/KOLHAPUR: Two days after NCP(SP) working president and MP Supriya Sule's WhatsApp account was hacked and the hacker demanded $400, NCP(SP) spokesperson Mahesh Tapase alleged she is under NDA govt surveillance. Sule said on Tuesday in Solapur that she has asked her husband, Sadanand Sule, to get details of notices issued by central agencies and correlate them with her speeches in Parliament criticising the central govt.
"We feel that Pegasus software has been used to keep a watch on her conversations. After the humiliating defeat of the NCP nominee in Baramati by Sule, it appears the software will be used during the ensuing assembly elections too," Tapase alleged.
Sule has already lodged a complaint with Pune rural police and the hacker has been booked. Sule expressed shock and surprise over the way her WhatsApp account was hacked. Sule said her husband received yet another I-T notice on Monday. "When we were in power, we never harassed anyone.
When I spoke on this recently, my husband, Sadanand Sule, got a notice from the income-tax department. We reply to the notices, and then, if I speak again, we get another notice. I have asked Sadanand Sule to take out data on how many times we have got notices and correlate it with speeches I made against the govt in Parliament," Sule said, stating that once the data is ready she will share it publicly through her social media accounts.
On Devendra Fadnavis's statement that the vote transfer from Shiv Sena and NCP to BJP was not as expected during the Lok Sabha polls, Tapase said it appeared Fadnavis's exercise to engineer a split in NCP and Shiv Sena was futile. "Fadnavis made all-out efforts to split Shiv Sena and NCP so that BJP would win more seats in the LS, but the split did not help. On the contrary, it proved counterproductive as MVA won 31 seats out of 48," Tapase said.