A week after temporarily suspending his account, Twitter restored Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s handle on Saturday. Rahul Gandhi’s account was temporarily suspended last week after he tweeted pictures of the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Northwest Delhi. Twitter deemed it violation of its rules. Meanwhile, Twitter restored Rahul Gandhi’s account a day after he lashed out at the microblogging site.
Sources said the Twitter accounts of some of the party leaders who had shared the same pictures have also been restored. “Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account has been unlocked,” a party functionary said, adding the accounts of some of the leaders have also been restored. The former Congress chief had accused Twitter of “interfering in the national political process” and said shutting down of his handle amounted to an “attack on the country’s democratic structure”. Gandhi, in a YouTube video statement titled “Twitter’s dangerous game”, alleged that it was not a neutral and objective platform and was “beholden to the government”. In the wake of the friction with the Congress, Twitter has transferred its India head Manish Maheshwari to the US. While the company did not specify any reason for the change, it said Maheshwari will move to the US as Senior Director and focus on new markets in his new role.
