In the wake of suspecting the cyber attacks over social media platforms in India, the opposition leader of Tamil Nadu and DMK president M K Stalin has demanded the fair and independent probe into the matter of serious allegations after the mobile phones of several politicians, journalists and activists have reportedly been hacked by the software that has the base in Israel. While expressing his demand through his official twitter handle, Stalin has urged the Central government to set up an independent inquiry as per the ruling of the Supreme court on the right to privacy.

The voice of the opposition party in the state has come days after the WhatsApp had stated with conformity that several users in India have been nested by the cyber attack through Pegasus spyware which affected about thousands of active users across the world. Despite the alleged hack that occurred in April and May this year during the general elections, the issue had come to spotlight after Whatsapp had appealed against the Israeli firm last week in an American Federal court.

One of India's national parties, Indian National Congress has claimed that the party's leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was one of the users who were trapped under the hack. The party's official spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had tweeted that the ruling BJP government has been deploying and executing the illegal and unconstitutional snooping and spying racket.

After having been accused of the allegations,  Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad issued an official statement in which he expressed that the government was concerned about the breach of rights to privacy of citizens of India. He further stated that the government has instructed WhatsApp to derive the explanations based on the breach and on the prevailing security measures to protect and promote the rights to privacy. It has been reported that WhatsApp has reported to the Indian government in May 2019, soon after it suspected the hack but however, the sources of the Indian government had claimed the communication as a technical dialect.

The other national leaders who made similar claims include West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and former Union Minister and senior leader of Nationalist Congress party Praful Patel. The reports revealed that of those 1,400 users across 20 nations who were targeted by cybercrime, about 121 were Indian journalists, activists, advocates, politicians, and senior government officials.