The Congress on Sunday claimed that senior party leader Priyanka Gandhi had received a message from WhatsApp informing her that her phone was suspected to have been hacked.
The party, however, did not say exactly when Gandhi received the message.
'I want to tell that Priyanka Gandhi also received a similar message from WhatsApp around the same time,' Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, responding to a question about Praful Patel and Mamata Banerjee receiving messages from the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
Gandhi received the message around the same time when WhatsApp was sending similar messages to those whose phones were allegedly hacked, Surjewala said.
Banerjee had on Saturday accused the Narendra Modi government of tapping her phone and said she was a victim of surveillance, the claims coming in the middle of the snooping controversy allegedly involving Israeli agency NSO’s Pegasus software.
The allegations by the politicians came following reports that the WhatsApp numbers of some journalists, lawyers and activists have been breached by Israeli agency NSO and its Pegasus spyware.