Shashi Tharoor, senior Congress leader and chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, on Sunday said the panel’s last meeting on July 28 was “disrupted” by BJP members as they did not want the Pegasus-related allegations to be discussed. The officials who were to testify “appear to have been instructed not to attend”, he added. Tharoor, however, expressed hope that the snooping issue would be taken up by the panel going forward.

Accusing the Centre of “closing the door” on talks to break the Parliament logjam over the Pegasus issue, RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must intervene to end the impasse, and called for extending the Monsoon session to make up for the lost time.