According to party leaders The official Twitter handle of the Congress party has been locked for ‘violating rules’ on August 12.This comes a day after several party leaders said that their handles were suspended too Congress had earlier accused Twitter of acting against Rahul Gandhi’s account under pressure from the government which resulted into temporary suspension of his twitter account.
The party on August 11 said that Twitter suspended accounts of its media in-charge Randeep Surjewala, AICC general secretary and former minister Ajay Maken, party’s whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge, and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev.
Twitter on August 11 told the Delhi High Court that it had temporarily locked Rahul Gandhi’s account and removed his tweet that had a photograph of the parents of a nine-year-old Dalit girl, who was allegedly raped and killed at a crematorium in Southwest Delhi on August 01.
