Twitter Unlocks Rahul Gandhi’s Handle Week After Suspension

Every week after briefly suspending his account, Twitter restored Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s deal with Saturday, however not earlier than the principal opposition social gathering accused it of bias.

Gandhi’s account was briefly suspended final week after he tweeted footage of the household of a nine-year-old sufferer of alleged rape and homicide in Northwest Delhi. Twitter deemed it violation of its guidelines.

Sources mentioned the Twitter accounts of a few of the social gathering leaders who had shared the identical footage have additionally been restored.

“Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account has been unlocked,” a celebration functionary mentioned, including the accounts of a few of the leaders have additionally been restored.

The former Congress chief had made a powerful outburst on Friday accusing Twitter of “interfering in the national political process” and mentioned shutting down of his deal with amounted to an “attack on the country’s democratic structure”.

Gandhi, in a YouTube video assertion titled “Twitter’s dangerous game”, alleged that it was not a impartial and goal 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 apparent now that Twitter is definitely not a impartial, goal platform. It is a biased platform. It’s one thing that listens to what the federal government of the day says,” Gandhi had alleged.

In 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.

While the corporate didn’t specify any purpose for the change, it mentioned Maheshwari will transfer to the US as Senior Director (Revenue Strategy and Operations) and deal with new markets in his new position.