"Not Interested": HD Kumaraswamy On Karnataka Pegasus Allegations

HD Kumaraswamy said, "I am not interested because this issue is over" and added that it would be better now to focus on people's welfare when the country is struggling to contain Covid.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy -- whose deputy and personal secretary were possible targets of Pegasus spyware when his alliance government with the Congress was on the brink of collapse -- distanced himself from the controversy today. "In this country, for several years, whoever is running the government, whoever the party, everybody is misusing the office to get some information... Or to safeguard their interests... This is going on. I am not interested in these issues," Mr Kumaraswamy told the media. "I am not interested because this issue is over," he then said, adding that it would be better now to focus on people's welfare when the country is struggling to contain Covid. In 2019, as Mr Kumaraswamy's government struggled to stay afloat as a series of MLAs quit, the phone numbers of his personal secretary, his Deputy G Parameshwara and the secretary of former chief minister Siddaramaiah were allegedly selected as potential targets, news portal"The Wire" reported today.