Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, slammed Twitter (TWTR.N) on Friday for blocking a tweet over the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, saying the platform was playing partisan politics.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, slammed Twitter on Friday for blocking a tweet over the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, saying the platform was playing partisan politics. The criticism of the U.S. microblogging giant by the Congress party comes as Twitter is trying to address concerns raised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government over compliance issues. Gandhi s account, which has 19.5 million followers, was locked after he posted a photograph of himself with the parents of a girl who was allegedly raped and killed https://www.reuters.com/world/india/protesters-gather-indian-crematorium-where-girl-9-raped-murdered-2021-08-05 in New Delhi on Aug. 1, saying the family deserved justice. Indian law bars disclosing the identity of victims of sexual assault and the National Commission for Protection of Child Right issued a notice to Twitter asking for its removal. But Gandhi said in a video released to reporters that b