'Big Brother Watching': Margaret Alva Hints at Phone Tapping; BJP Ministers Deny

The Opposition's vice presidential candidate said that her phone stopped working after she called some BJP leaders.

Margaret Alva, the Opposition's joint candidate for the upcoming vice presidential election, alleged that her phone SIM had stopped working after she made calls to some BJP leaders.

"'Big Brother’ is always watching," Alva said in a tweet suggestive of phone tapping on Tuesday, 26 July.

However, government-owned telecom operator MTNL responded to her, indicating that the telecom notice she had shared while stating her SIM was suspended was false.

"MTNL never ask for the e-KYC on WhatsApp/SMS/Call etc. MTNL Alert by sending messages to all GSM customers to avoid such type of EKYC SMS/WhatsApp/Calls as it may lead to some kind of fraud , hence you are requested to ignore such E-KYC messages," it said in a reply to her tweet.

Further, two Union Ministers on Tuesday rubbished the allegations made by Alva.