PFI Twitter ban: The official Twitter account of Popular Front of India (PFI) has been withheld by the social media firm after authorities’s request. The account had almost 81,000 followers. The transfer comes after India authorities cracked down on “illegal” outfit PFI in two mega raids. Over 250 folks have been arrested for anti-India exercise from throughout eight states.
PFI and its associates or associates or fronts function brazenly as a socio-economic, academic and political group however, they’ve been pursuing a secret agenda to radicalize a specific part of the society working in the direction of undermining the idea of democracy and present sheer disrespect in the direction of the constitutional authority and constitutional arrange of the nation, mentioned the federal government notification.
The notification, which enforced the ban, talked about that PFI and its associates or associates or fronts have been indulging in illegal actions, that are prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and safety of the nation and have the potential to disturb public peace and communal concord of the nation and help militancy within the nation.
It additional mentioned a number of the PFI’s founding members are the leaders of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and PFI has linkages with Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), each of that are proscribed organisations.
Apart from PFI, the Government has additionally banned 8 PFI fronts, together with:
1. All India Imams Council
2. Campus Front of India
3. Rehab India Foundation
4. National Conf of Human Rights Org
5. National Women’s Front
6. Junior Front
7. Empower India Foundation
8. Rehab Foundation, Kerala
There had been numerous cases of worldwide linkages of PFI with globalterrorist teams just like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); the PFI and its associates or associates or fronts have been working covertly to extend the radicalization of 1 neighborhood by selling a way of insecurity within the nation, which is substantiated by the truth that some PFI cadres have joined worldwide terrorist organisations, mentioned the notification.
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