The microblogging site on Wednesday night suspended the accounts of five senior leaders, including party’s media head Randeep Surjewala just days after former Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account was temporarily suspended. The party informed that the Twitter accounts of AICC general secretary and former minister Ajay Maken, party’s whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have been locked.
In each case, the notification issued was that the content was found violative of Twitter rules and the user was asked to appeal in case he/she thought it was incorrectly locked. All the users those whose accounts have been suspended had joined the “Main Bhi Rahul” campaign, launched after Rahul met the girl’s family. “So! After Shri @RahulGandhi, the Lord @narendramodi Ji and Vassal @Jack & @twitter have locked @rssurjewala, @ajaymaken & @sushmitadevinc. @INCIndia registers its protest and promises to continue the fight for each and all being wronged! We shall hold on @AshwiniVaishnaw Ji,” tweeted AICC secretary in-charge of party’s Communication Department. The Congress has accused Twitter of acting against Mr Gandhi’s account under pressure from the government. Mr Gandhi had tweeted pictures with the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Delhi last week.
