Was 10-fold rise in NSC finances meant to buy Pegasus: Congress

Amid a raging political controversy over the Pegasus telephone hacking expose, the Congress at the moment stated the National Security Council Secretariat had seen a tenfold improve in its budgetary allocation in 2017-18 and requested whether or not the budgetary grant elevated to buy Pegasus spy ware.
The Congress stated the budgetary allocation for NSCS was Rs 17.43 crore in 2011-12 when the UPA authorities was in energy. It went as much as Rs 20.33 crores within the subsequent monetary 12 months and was additional elevated to Rs 26.06 crores in 2013-14.
The Government modified in 2014 and the BJP got here to energy.
In 2014-15, the Congress stated, the BJP authorities elevated the allocation to Rs 44.46 crores, which got here all the way down to Rs 33 crores in 2016-17.

“But in 2017-18, a new sub-head was created under the National Security Council Secretariat which is called the Cyber Security Research and Development. And the Budget shockingly was increased from Rs 33 crores to Rs 333 crores. Was this money used to buy Pegasus software…,” Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera requested.