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Prasad slams Rahul Gandhi over his net neutrality speech

by IBNS 22 Apr 2015, 10:27 am

New Delhi, Apr 22 (IBNS): Hours after Rahul Gandhi spoke on net neutrality in the Lok Sbaha, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday slammed him and said his facts were 'wrong' on the issue.

"Rahul Gandhi is super wrong on the net neutrality issue," Prasad told media.

"It as irresponsible on Rahul Gandhi's part as he said that we want to take away internet from people,"the Minister said.

He asked Gandhi not to make the net neutrality issue a political matter.

"Don't make it a political issue," Prasad said.

"The future of India's internet is safe in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi," he said.

 Gandhi on Wednesday raised the issue of net neutrality in the Lok Sabha and attacked the Centre over the matter as he said that it was trying to distribute the internet among big industrialists.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Gandhi said: "The youth needs internet freedom. This government trying to appease corporates in this too.They want to distribute the internet among big industrialists."

Demanding for a law on the issue, he said: "We want that consultation with TRAI be stopped, and there should be a law on Net Neutrality."

"Net Neutrality is an important issue - it means everyone should have Net Ka Adhikaar," he said.

 Gandhi earlier in the day  gave a notice for the adjournment of the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha to debate on the issue of net neutrality.

Speaking in the House, Prasad said the Centre believes that every person should have access to internet.

Debate over the issue of net neutrality gained momentum in past few days after standup comedy group All India Bakchod (AIB) pulled up the matter over their new video where they are urging people to 'Save The Internet'.

The video is dealing over the issue of net neutrality.

According to netneutrality.in, the net neutrality is 'the idea that internet service providers give their customers equal access to all lawful websites and services on the internet, without giving priority to any website over another'.