NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Saturday pounced on a New York Times report, which has claimed that India bought Pegasus spyware from Israel as part of a defence deal worth $2 billion in 2017. The NYT report seems to reinforce a claim made in a report carried by a news portal ‘The Wire’ in July 2021. The portal had claimed that names of several Opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, and over 40 Indian journalists figure on a leaked list of potential targets for surveillance by an unidentified agency using Pegasus spyware. The Congress party asserted on Saturday that “the Modi Government …