Joining other opposition parties, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday slammed the Narendra Modi government over the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) vesting snooping powers to central agencies and called it "draconian and an assault on people’s right to privacy".
“India’s been under undeclared emergency since May 2014. Now, in its last couple of months, Modi govt is crossing all limits by seeking control of the citizens' computers. Can such curtailment of fundamental rights be tolerated in world's largest democracy?” the party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted as an initial reaction to the MHA notification stating that 10 central government agencies have been given the right to investigate computers of any citizen.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP ND Gupta described the order “draconian” claiming “the move to be a direct breach on every citizen’s right to privacy and in contempt of the Supreme Court’s August 2017 verdict of privacy being a fundamental right”.