Congress leader KC Venugopal has reacted to former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey’s claims saying that the ruling party pressured the social media platform to shut the opposition’s accounts. Dorsey alleged that the Indian government threatened that it would shut down Twitter in India and conduct raids at its employees’ houses.
“The statement of Twitter CEO is totally alarming and shocking for all of us. Entire government machinery is pressurising Twitter CEO to suppress and shut the opposition’s voice. That is why they banned Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account,” Venugopal said. “Where is the freedom of expression, freedom of media? They do this to suppress failure. We will raise the issue not only in Parliament, but we will also raise the issue throughout the country.”
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole is convinced that the BJP leaders may have made such attempts.
He said, “What Twitter CEO (Jack Dorsey) said is totally correct. When BJP came into power, the media was not given the power to show the truth. Earlier also, the BBC launched a short film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central agency raided them. Yes, the government must have warned Twitter saying that if they report against us, we will raid departments of Twitter in India”.
He added, “We know that BJP uses central agencies, Twitter is lying but this government is telling lies and they must have used the central agencies against them (Twitter, BBC)”.
The BJP, however, was not to be outdone. BJP’s Sambit Patra shared a cartoon in which Rahul Gandhi is posing as a puppeteer, with the strings pulling Jack Dorsey. “No points for guessing, we all know who is pulling the strings,” Sambit Patra tweeted.
“Not an MP, not a minister, not the PM, not the Opposition Party President. Just a citizen and yet can control the strings, as per this tweet. Isn’t that a spectacular failure of PM and GoI?!” Shiv Sena (Uddhab Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote.
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