-TDP rule rejected offer made by Pegasus
-‘She (Mamata) might have been misinformed’
-If TDP did like that, Jagan would not have won
AMARAVATI: “We have never purchased any Spyware. We never indulged in any illegal phone tapping,” Telugu Desam Party National General Secretary Nara Lokesh said here on Thursday.
Reacting to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s purported claim that the previous Chandrababu Naidu government purchased the Pegasus Spyware, Lokesh retorted, “She was misinformed. If we had resorted to such things, Jagan Mohan Reddy would not have come to power in 2019”.
“I don’t know whether she has indeed said that, and where and in which context. If she did say that, she is certainly misinformed,” Lokesh, who was the then Minister for Information Technology in his father Chandrababu’s Cabinet, observed. Chandrababu Naidu would never indulge in such illegal acts, he asserted.
In a chit chat with the media here, Lokesh said: “Yes, Pegasus offered to sell its Spyware to the AP government as well but we rejected it.” If the government purchased the Spyware, there would be a record of it, he pointed out.
“If there had been any such thing, would the (current) Jagan regime spare us? In the last three years, they have tried every trick to fix us in one thing or the other but failed, because we did nothing wrong,” the TDP MLC maintained. “If indeed we had Pegasus, Jagan would not have gone scot-free despite all his atrocious acts,” Lokesh asserted.
Nara Lokesh further said that immediately after coming to power, Jagan Reddy had got all files in the IT and all other departments inspected thoroughly. He would have taken action if any illegal act was found. “Wrong information might have reached her. Chandrababu Naidu was a leader who always believed in developing systems as permanent entities.”
Lokesh pointed out that the Chandrababu regime passed such a trustworthy and transparent CRDA law that had emerged victorious now. The YCP Government had no clarity on the AP Capital but the TDP had a clear cut policy which would always be ‘One State One Capital.
The TDP MLC slammed the Jagan regime for dragging on the Jangareddygudem illicit liquor deaths without agreeing for debate in the House for four days. The TDP would continue its relentless fight on the people’s issues. The safety of people’s lives was paramount. CM Jagan Reddy was spreading lies inside the House and outside effortlessly and without a conscience.
Lokesh asked why the FIRs were registered if the Jangareddygudem fatalities were ‘natural deaths’. Why did the SEB carry out raids on illicit liquor dens? The YCP told lies to even the President and the Prime Minister that the TDP regime gave DSP promotions to 37 officers of the same community.
