New Delhi: Reacting to former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey’s declare that there was ‘stress’ from India to dam accounts masking the farmers’ protests, Congress chief KC Venugopal on Tuesday stated that the federal government needs to close the opposition’s voice and that’s the reason they banned Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account. In an interview with the YouTube channel ‘Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar’ on Monday, Dorsey who stepped down from Twitter’s board final 12 months, alleged that the Indian authorities had put stress on Twitter and stated that it’ll shut down the corporate in India and raid the homes of its staff.
“The statement of Twitter CEO is totally alarming and shocking for all of us. Entire government machinery is pressurising Twitter CEO to suppress and shut the opposition’s voice. That is why they banned Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account,” Venugopal stated. “Where is the freedom of expression, freedom of media? They do this to suppress failure. We will raise the issue not only in Parliament, but we will also raise the issue throughout the country,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole additionally supported the declare of former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey that there was ‘stress’ from India to dam accounts masking the farmers’ protests and stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will need to have made such makes an attempt.
“What Twitter CEO (Jack Dorsey) said is totally correct. When BJP came into power, media was not given the power to show the truth. Earlier also, the BBC launched a short film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central agency raided them. Yes, the government must have warned Twitter saying that if they report against us, we will raid departments of Twitter in India”.
Further Patole stated, “We know that BJP uses central agencies, Twitter is not saying lies but this government is telling lies and they must have used the central agencies against them (Twitter, BBC)”. Jack Dorsey within the interview stated that there have been requests throughout farmers’ protests to close Twitter within the nation.
“…..India is one of the countries which had many requests around farmers’ protests, around particular journalists who were critical of the government and it manifested in ways such as we will shut Twitter down in India, India is a big marketplace for us. We would raid the homes of your employees, which they did and we will shut down your offices if you don’t follow suit and this is India, a democratic country,” Dorsey is heard saying within the interview on the YouTube channel,” he stated.
In November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the repeal of the three Central farm legal guidelines.
In his deal with to the nation, PM Modi stated then, “Today I want to tell everyone that we have decided to repeal all three farm laws.” Farmers staged a protest in massive numbers in opposition to the federal government’s three farm legal guidelines for the reason that Centre handed the legal guidelines in 2020.
The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, which is among the many farm legal guidelines, supplies for organising a mechanism permitting the farmers to promote their farm produce exterior the Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs). Any licence-holder dealer should buy the produce from the farmers at mutually agreed costs. This commerce of farm produces will probably be freed from mandi tax imposed by the state governments.
The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act permits farmers to do contract farming and market their produces freely. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act is an modification to the prevailing Essential Commodities Act.Â
