CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Reacting to the BJP led Indian government’s move of permitting agencies to snoop into the computers of citizens, the Dal Khalsa has stated that the Narendra Modi led Indian Government is trying to strengthen the India as a police state.
In a press note shared with Sikh24, Dal Khalsa’s spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh has said that by taking this route the Indian government is trying to legalize the illegal acts of its agencies, which they are carrying out since long with impunity. “There’s testing time for the Indian judiciary whether it will take suo motto notice or not” he added.
Terming the move as an infringement of the right to privacy, he said the government wants to snoop into the personal lives of people, which is totally unacceptable.
He further said that monitoring of phones, internet or physical surveillance of citizens by agencies is a common knowledge. “We are already living in dangerous times when our lives are at the mercy of security and police establishment. However, by officially making it legal, the government wants to snatch the right of the people to protest or move to Court of law against government’s injustices” he maintained.
He said the government is hell bent to strengthen the centralized structure of the country’s polity leaving no room for provincial governments to have any independent say in legislation concerning their citizens. Those parties, which are votary of federalism, should read the writings on the wall.
He informed that under Indian government pressure the Twitter has sent a legal note regarding our twitter account @dal_khalsa (Dal Khalsa) alleging that our tweets are in violation of Indian laws. “In response to Twitter’s correspondence, we have asked Twitter to inform us as to which of our tweets are a violation as we stand firm that nothing is unlawful or objectionable in our tweets” he informed.
