'Reason For Rahul Gandhi Ban': Congress Leader On Twitter Ex-CEO's Claim
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Congress's KC Venugopal said the government wants to suppress the opposition's voice and that was why Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account was banned.
Reacting to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's claim that there was 'pressure' from India to block accounts covering the farmers' protests, Congress leader KC Venugopal said today that the government wants to suppress the opposition's voice and that is why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account.
In an interview with the YouTube channel 'Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar' on Monday, Mr Dorsey, who stepped down from Twitter's board last year, alleged that the Indian government had put pressure on Twitter and said that it will shut down the company in India and raid the houses of its employees.
"The statement of the Twitter CEO is totally alarming and shocking for all of us. The entire government machinery is pressuring the Twitter CEO to suppress and shut the opposition's voice. That is why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account," Mr 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," he said.
