NEW DELHI, March 16 � Opposition parties in the Parliament today vociferously protested the �snooping� on Rahul Gandhi, with the government dismissing their contention saying they were making a �mountain out of what is not even a molehill�, leading the Congress to walk out of the Rajya Sabha, reports PTI.
The government maintained in both the Houses that Delhi Police personnel had recently visited Rahul�s residence to collect information on him as part of a transparent security profiling that was used to profile 526 other VIPs, including former Prime Ministers and Sonia Gandhi since the UPA rule.
In the Rajya Sabha, the issue was raised by Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad who said Rahul had been an SPG protectee since his father Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister and it was �beyond comprehension� why the police was only now collecting such information on him like his shoe size, colour of hair, habits, his associates, friends and aides.
His senior party colleague Anand Sharma accused government of tapping phones of political leaders, judges and others through imported devices and demanded an inquiry monitored by the Supreme Court into the snooping issue.
The Upper House also saw Satyavrat Chaturvedi (Cong), Naresh Agarwal and Ramgopal Yadav (both SP) and K C Tyagi (JD-U) raising the issue of �snooping and spying� on the government�s political opponents.
In the Lok Sabha, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the NDA government was pursuing the Gujarat model of governance by snooping on political opponents.
