Jack Dorsey’s allegations: Opposition targets govt for suppressing’ social media platforms

Kharge focused on the farmers’ agitation to target the government. The BJP government, he alleged, had done everything it could to crush the farmers’ protest.

“The Prime Minister himself had called the farmers andolanjeevi…The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh had accused the farmers of accepting foreign funds…BJP ministers and leaders had called the farmers Naxalites, extremists and traitors…If they could do all this…then threatening journalists and leaders of the farmers’ agitation is not a big thing…we will foil the BJP conspiracy to finish democracy in India,” Kharge said.

Addressing a press conference, Congress social media head Supriya Shrinate said: “The manipulation of social media platforms or media at large is what ails Indian democracy. The mother of democracy is seeing a murder of democracy in broad daylight and people are being coaxed into submission and that is what weakening the democracy is.”

The Congress said the government’s response was on expected lines. “I wasn’t expecting the government to say anything else. There is no other defence other than saying that Dorsey is lying. What does he have to gain through lying or not lying or telling the truth but the Government has a lot to gain through lying,” Shrinate said.

The Congress claimed that “opposition voices are regularly being suppressed by the government” and pointed out that senior leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter handle was banned under “pressure” from the government.

Several other opposition leaders too spoke out. While AAP leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said it was “unfair” and “wrong” “if someone (had) tried to scuttle the farmers’ protests, Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien said the government has been exposed as it was not only intimidating farmers, but was also threatening Twitter.

“The outrageous manner in which the media ecosystem is being manipulated. Dissent is intimidated, journalists threatened, abused and jailed on false pretext. No amount of denial by the Modi government can obfuscate the truth of doctoring media content,” said CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

Rajya Sabha MP and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi alleged that the BJP and the government tried to “crush” the farmers’ protest.

“They tried to defame the movement. They called farmers terrorists. They called farmers anti-national. They lathi-charged the farmers. They let farmers die. They tried to silence the opposition in Parliament… Indian democracy or rule of Modiocracy?” she said.

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