NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday called Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Cambridge a “brazen attempt” to denigrate the country on foreign soil in the guise of targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi after successive electoral defeats and slammed the Congress MP for his claims of opposition leaders like him being under surveillance. After Rahul’s claim in his speech at Cambridge University that he was being snooped on through Israeli spyware Pegasus, Union minister Anurag Thakur said, “What was his compulsion that he could not submit his mobile phone (before the SC committee) to have it checked for Pegasus spyware? He is already on bail in a (National Herald) corruption case. What was there in his phone that he needed to hide? Why did he and other leaders (who Rahul claims were allegedly spied on) not submit their phones? It has become his habit to defame India on foreign soil.”