Twitter unlocks Rahul Gandhi’s account after a week, Congress says ‘Satyameva Jayate’

Twitter restored Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s account on Saturday, a week after temporarily suspending his handle, but not before the principal opposition party accused the microblogging site of bias.

Last week, Gandhi’s account was temporarily suspended following a tweet, in which he posted pictures of the parents of a nine-year-old girl of alleged rape and murder in Northwest Delhi. Twitter said it was violation of its rules.

According to sources, Twitter handles of several party leaders who had shared the same pictures have also been restored. “Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account has been unlocked,” a party member told.

Meanwhile, party’s official handle tweeted “Satyamev Jayate (Truth shall prevail)”, with no direct reference to the controversy.

Accusing Twitter of “interfering in the national political process”, the former Congress chief had made a strong outburst on Friday, saying that shutting down of his handle amounted to an “attack on the country’s democratic structure”.

In a YouTube video statement titled “Twitter’s dangerous game”, Rahul Gandhi alleged that Twitter was not a neutral or objective platform, but was “beholden to the government.

Gandhi, questioning Twitter’s action, said that the microblogging 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,” he alleged.

Twitter has transferred its India head Manish Maheshwari to the US in wake of the friction with the Congress. An FIR was registered against Maheshwari in Uttar Pradesh in connection with an inquiry related to a video of an alleged hate crime. While the US based company did give any specifications or reason for the change, it said that Maheshwari will move to the US as Senior Director and focus on new markets in his new role.

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