On Tuesday, an adjournment motion notice has been submitted in the Lok Sabha by the congress over the surveillance carried out by a China-based organization on key Indian personalities, including the President and Prime Minister, as reported by Indian Express on Monday.

Congress leader of the House, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and MP Manickam Tagore moved the notice by calling it a matter of urgent importance. Tagore solicited an adjournment to discuss how China’s agencies have been watching Indian political leaders and over 10,000 Indians, entities from politics to business, judiciary to media, even those accused of crimes.

The government had been asked by the opposition on Monday to step in and order a probe into the monitoring of over 10,000 people in India by the Shenzhen-based Zhenua Data Information Technology Co. Ltd.

The Congress said in the Indian Express report that the “Chinese digital surveillance” was quite disturbing, and that it was necessary to know the extent of it, and if there was more to it than collating data. The party said that the development had huge implications for national security and privacy of citizens.

On Monday, an adjournment motion on the issue was moved by the Lok Sabha member from TMC, Saugata Roy. He stated that this was an extremely serious matter that a Chinese agency, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government, is farming data information on all top political leaders, senior officials, Army staff and top scientists in India. He added that it was nothing sort of invading the data privacy of Indian leaders and the entire country. He stressed that the Indian government needs to raise this concern with the Chinese government.