{"id":978020,"date":"2025-12-03T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978020"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:11:13","slug":"bjp-defends-sanchar-saathi-app-no-spying-bidattempt-to-save-consumers-from-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/bjp-defends-sanchar-saathi-app-no-spying-bidattempt-to-save-consumers-from-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP defends Sanchar Saathi app, \u2018No spying bid\u2026attempt to save consumers from fraud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has defended the Sanchar Saathi app, asserting that it is designed to safeguard users against telecom fraud, and not to spy on them. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said the platform functions like any other application, and users are free to delete it from their phones if they choose to. <\/p>\n<p>Sanchar Saathi cannot read messages, listen to calls <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are champions of misinformation will never understand what Sanchar Saathi is,\u201d Sambit Patra said during a press briefing at BJP headquarters in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has defended the Sanchar Saathi app, asserting that it is designed to safeguard users against telecom fraud, and not to spy on them. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said the platform functions like any other application, and users are free to delete it from their phones if they choose to. Sanchar Saathi cannot read messages, listen to calls \u201cThose who are champions of misinformation will never understand what Sanchar Saathi is,\u201d Sambit Patra said during a press briefing at BJP headquarters in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}