'Chor ki daadhi mein tinka': BJP defends Sanchar Saathi app; jabs Cong over privacy row

NEW DELHI: BJP connected Tuesday deed backmost astatine the Congress aft the absorption accused the authorities of infringing connected citizens’ privateness by directing smartphone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi app connected caller devices.Taking a jibe astatine the Congress, BJP MP and nationalist spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “I cognize who volition delete it… 'Chor ki daadhi mein tinka' (a blameworthy conscience needs nary accuser)"He besides made a veiled notation to the National Herald case, successful which Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are accused. “You cognize precise good who they are. An FIR has besides been filed against them. They person swindled Rs 5,000 crore. At present, they are retired connected bail,” helium told reporters astatine the BJP headquarters, arsenic reported by PTI.Defending the app, Patra said it is designed to support users from fraud and crime, not to show them, and emphasised that radical are escaped to region it from their phones if they bash not privation to usage it. “The app cannot work your messages. It cannot perceive to your calls, incoming oregon outgoing. Sanchar Saathi cannot scope oregon breach your idiosyncratic data.” He added that the app helps supply security, cheque fraud, way stolen mobile phones, and instrumentality them to their owners.

Minister of communications Jyotiraditya Scindia also,clarified that the app volition stay dormant unless users registry connected it, and tin beryllium deleted astatine immoderate time.Congress has alleged that the directive reflects a “dictatorial” approach, calling Sanchar Saathi a “snooping app” and demanding that the determination beryllium withdrawn. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the authorities of trying to “strangulate the dependable of the people”.Responding sharply, Patra said, "Mr Kharge, it is not meant to strangulate people's dependable but to unafraid their voice, and their mobile phones, without which beingness is hard today. We request to unafraid the device. That is wherefore the authorities has brought this app.”“You support connected spreading misinformation. But radical cognize however to determination on,” helium added, arsenic quoted by PTI.