Politicians, activists meet President against Modi over snooping row

New Delhi: A group of 45 activists and politicians will march to Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday to complain to President Pranab Mukherjee against Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over the alleged surveillance of woman by the Gujarat Police.

Leaders from the Congress, CPI and NCP along with activists like Shabnam Hashmi will take out a protest march to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. There has been a war of words between the Congress and the BJP ever since the tapes of the alleged surveillance surfaced.

Modi's key aide Amit Shah had allegedly ordered Gujarat Police to spy on a young woman in Bangalore in 2009. A Cobrapost-Gulail report claimed to have accessed taped conversations which are in the CBI's possession, which claimed that Amit Shah ordered police surveillance of a woman, allegedly on the orders of a certain 'saheb'.