New Delhi: Union Minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar on Monday rejected the claims of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who said that the Indian government forced the micro-blogging platform to limit coverage during the farmers’ agitation.
The minister called it a “complete lie”.
Taking a dig at the controversial stroke by former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey in an interview to YouTube channel and podcast Breaking Points, highlighted that India is a democratic country and said that the government has the right to raid the homes of journalists. threatened’ that were “critical”. “Which he did.”
He said, “For example, India is one of those countries where there were many requests about the farmers’ protest, about particular journalists who were criticizing the government, and that ‘we should shut down Twitter in India’. Will give…’ We will raid the homes of your employees, which they did; ‘If you don’t follow suit, we will close your offices’. And this is India, a democratic country. .
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“During the farmers’ protest, the Modi government put pressure on us and said we will shut down your offices, raid your employees’ homes, which they did if you didn’t follow suit.”
– Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO pic.twitter.com/tOyCfyDWcz
— Srinivasa Biwi (@srinivasiyc) June 12, 2023
the opposition reacts
Congress leader Supriya Shrinate on Tuesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged that the Indian government had asked the social media platform to limit coverage of farmers’ agitation.
Congress President of Social Media and Digital Platform Shrinet was addressing a public meeting and said, “The theme of this press conference is to tell how democracy is being murdered in the mother of democracy…”
#Watch , On former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s claim of ‘pressure’ from India, Congress party’s social media and digital platform chairperson Supriya Shrinate says, “The theme of this press conference is to tell how democracy is being murdered.. . pic.twitter.com/gLMK9C9PKb
– ANI (@ANI) June 13, 2023
“When farmers were agitating on Delhi border for more than a year braving cold, heat and rain, they were being called ‘Mawali, Khalistani, Pakistani and terrorist’ and from forums like Twitter That if they show it to farmers, they will be stopped and raided in India…,” he said.
Reacting to the controversy, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said that he did not get as much reach of the farmers’ protest through Facebook and Twitter as he expected. Tikait said, ‘Jack Dorsey is right, the Government of India must have made efforts.’