Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera. | Pawan Khera/Twitter
Congress leader Pawan Khera on Sunday sent a legal notice to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and social media platform Twitter for taking down his April 12 tweet on the surge of Covid-19 cases. The tweet had questioned the “complete silence” of the Union government in allowing the Kumbh Mela and election rallies to take place despite the worsening coronavirus situation in India.
Twitter has reportedly removed 52 posts from its platform after the Narendra Modi government claimed they were spreading “fake news” about its handling of the pandemic and sent legal request to the platform to withhold some of the tweets. The majority of these tweets were critical of the Centre’s handling of the crisis as the second wave in India has led to states grappling with shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines and vaccine doses.
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