Twitter Unlocks Rahul Gandhi Account Day After His “Dangerous Game” Swipe

Rahul Gandhi had yesterday launched a video message on YouTube, lashing out at Twitter.

New Delhi:

Twitter at the moment restored Rahul Gandhi’s account, together with that of the Congress and its different leaders, every week after it was quickly suspended for tweeting footage of the household of a nine-year-old sufferer of alleged rape and homicide in Northwest Delhi. The transfer got here a day after he lashed out on the microblogging website.

“All Congress accounts have been unlocked. No motive has been given by Twitter for the unlocking,” Rohan Gupta, the Congress in-charge of social media accounts, instructed NDTV.

Satyameva Jayate

— Congress (@INCIndia) August 14, 2021

Earlier, Twitter had deemed the sharing of the pictures of the reported rape sufferer’s household a violation of its guidelines.

In response, the previous Congress chief had, yesterday, accused Twitter of “interfering within the nationwide political course of” and mentioned shutting down of his deal with amounted to an “assault on the nation’s democratic construction”.

Mr Gandhi, in a YouTube video assertion titled “Twitter’s harmful sport”, alleged that the microblogging website was not a impartial and goal platform and was “beholden to the federal government”.

Questioning Twitter’s locking of his deal with, he mentioned hundreds of thousands of his followers had been unfairly denied the precise to an opinion.

“It is apparent now that Twitter is definitely not a impartial, goal platform. It’s a biased platform. It is one thing that listens to what the federal government of the day says,” he alleged.

Within the wake of the friction with the Congress, Twitter has transferred its India head Manish Maheshwari, in opposition to whom an FIR was registered in Uttar Pradesh in reference to a probe associated to a video of an alleged hate crime, to the US.

Whereas the corporate didn’t specify any motive for the change, it mentioned Maheshwari will transfer to the US as Senior Director (Income Technique and Operations) and concentrate on new markets in his new position.