Team News Riveting
New Delhi, August 14
Social networking site Twitter on Saturday restored Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s handle after nearly a week of temporary suspension.
The Congress Vice President’s account was temporarily suspended last week after he tweeted pictures of the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Northwest Delhi. Twitter termed it violation of its rules. The accounts of some of the party leaders who had shared the same pictures were also restored.
The former Congress President had made a strong outburst on Friday accusing Twitter of “interfering in the national political process” and said shutting down of his handle amounted to an “attack on the country’s democratic structure”. Gandhi, in a YouTube video statement titled “Twitter’s dangerous game”, alleged that it was not a neutral and objective platform and was “beholden to the government.”
Questioning Twitter’s action, Gandhi had said the company was denying millions of his followers the right to an opinion, which was unfair. “It’s obvious now that Twitter is actually not a neutral, objective platform. It is a biased platform. It’s something that listens to what the government of the day says,” Gandhi had alleged.
In the wake of the wrath from the Congress, Twitter transferred its India head Manish Maheshwari to the United States without citing any official reason for the change. Maheshwari will be the Senior Director (Revenue Strategy and Operations).
