India has a very bad history in dealing with such issues esp when they involve technology. Remember when they asked Google, Facebook, Twitter et. al. to preemptively delete undesired messages?
A lot of the unrest and anger here is because mass surveillance was approved to be carried out in secret and the companies were not even allowed to talk about what type of data they were providing to the government.
They just barely mention it in passing, is ambiguous and can be interpreted however they want it to: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=70747, like: "Hey, we are going to monitor every aspect of your life, and keep the records forever, and will be used against you for the interests of various corrupt people; in effect, shutting you up. No big deal :)"