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Twitter on Saturday, 14 August, restored Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's account after it was suspended for tweeting photos of the family of a nine-year-old Dalit rape victim.
"Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account has been unlocked," a party official told news agency PTI. He also added that the accounts of a few other leaders, suspended along with
Gandhi's, have also been restored, PTI reported. Congress took to Twitter after the account was unlocked, to say 'Satyameva Jayate'. 'ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC
STRUCTURE': GANDHI A day after Twitter locked the accounts of the Congress party and a number of its leaders, Rahul Gandhi on Friday, 13 August, posted a video on YouTube registering
his protest against the action, for which the party has inculpated the BJP. "This is an attack on the democratic structure of the country," Gandhi can be heard saying in the video
titled 'Twitter's dangerous game'. > "By shutting down my Twitter, they're interfering in our political > process. A company is making its business to define
our politics. > And as a politician, I don't like that." Rahul Gandhi TWITTER'S RESPONSE Twitter has denied any influence and said that their rules are enforced
"judiciously and impartially". "We have taken proactive action on several hundred of tweets that posted an image that violated our Rules, and may continue to do so in line
with ourrange of enforcement options (sic)," the social media platform told THE QUINT. It added that some private information is high risk and said that Twitter's aim is
"always to protect individuals’ privacy and safety". Published: 14 Aug 2021, 11:42 AM IST