New Delhi: Responding to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s claim that there was “pressure” from India to block accounts covering farmers’ protests, Congress leader KC Venugopal on Tuesday said the government Wants to stop the voice of Congress and that’s why they banned Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account. In an interview with YouTube channel ‘Breaking Points with Crystal and Sagar’ on Monday, Dorsey, who stepped down from Twitter’s board last year, alleged that the Indian government put pressure on Twitter and said it would shut down the company in India. raided the homes of his employees.
Venugopal said, “Twitter CEO’s statement is completely shocking and shocking to all of us. The entire government machinery is pressurizing the Twitter CEO to suppress and silence the voice of the opposition. Twitter account banned.” “Where is the freedom of speech, freedom of the media? They do this to suppress failure. We will not only raise this issue in Parliament, but we will raise this issue across the country,” he said.
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Meanwhile, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Nana Patole also backed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s claim that there was ‘pressure’ from India to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and said that Indian The Janata Party (BJP) must have made such an effort.
“What Twitter CEO (Jack Dorsey) said is absolutely correct. When BJP came to power, the media was not given the power to show the truth. Even before this, BBC launched a short film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. and the central agency raided them.” Yes, the government would have warned Twitter saying that if they report against us, we will raid Twitter’s departments in India.”
Patole further said, “We know that BJP uses central agencies, Twitter is not lying but this government is lying and they must have used central agencies against them (Twitter, BBC).” In the interview, Jack Dorsey said that there was a request to shut down Twitter during the farmers’ protests in the country.
“…India is one of those countries that had many requests around the farmers protest, especially around journalists who were criticizing the government and it appeared like we will shut down Twitter in India , India is a big market for us. We will raid the houses of your employees which they did and if you don’t follow suit we will shut down your offices and this India is a democratic country,” Dorsey told YouTube He has been heard saying in an interview on the channel. ,” They said.
In November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of three central agricultural laws.
In his address to the nation, PM Modi then said, ‘Today I want to tell everyone that we have decided to repeal all the three agricultural laws.’ Farmers protested in large numbers against the government’s three farm laws since the Center passed the laws in 2020.
The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, which is one of the farm laws, provides for setting up a mechanism to allow farmers to sell their farm produce outside Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) . Any licensed dealer can buy produce from farmers at mutually agreed prices. This trade of agricultural produce will be free from market tax imposed by the state governments.
The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act allows farmers to take up contract farming and market their produce independently. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act is an amendment to the existing Essential Commodities Act.