NEW DELHI: Reacting strongly to the fresh reports of the U.S. National Security Agency spying on the ruling Bharatya Janata Party, India Wednesday summoned a top US diplomat here to raise the issue, saying it was “totally unacceptable” that an Indian organization or Indian individual’s privacy was transgressed upon. India also sought an assurance from the US that it will not happen again. It is for the third time that India has summoned the top diplomat from the US embassy to complain about spying.
A new document supplied by fugitive former intelligence worker Edward Snowden and made public by The Washington Post on Monday showed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was among authorised targets for the NSA in 2010 while it was India’s main opposition.
India has complained to the United States on two other occasions, in July and November 2013, over other revelations including the disclosure that its UN mission in New York and its Washington embassy were snooped on.
Both times Washington has said it would look into what it can share about its espionage programme but failed to offer any details, media reports here said.
The new incident comes ahead of a visit to New Delhi by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is expected to meet members of Modi’s government in the next few months.
Modi, whose party swept to power in May with the first majority in 30 years, will travel to the US in September for the United Nations General Assembly and his first meeting with President Barack Obama.
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