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โ€œAbuse Of Powerโ€; Twitter To Sue Indian Govt Over Takedown Orders, Says Report

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According to a report published by Reuters citing sources, social media giant Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content in a legal challenge which alleges abuse of power by officials.

Twitter has been in continuous confrontation with the Indian government for while now, and the US social media companyโ€™s attempt to get a judicial review is part of the same tussle. Earlier, Indiaโ€™s IT ministry had warned Twitter of criminal proceedings if it did not comply with some orders.

The microblogging website has been asked by the Indian government over the last year o act on content including accounts supportive of an independent Sikh state and on dozens of tweets that were critical of the governmentโ€™s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When reached out by Reuters to comment on the matter, Indiaโ€™s IT ministry did not immediately respond on Tuesday for comment about Twitterโ€™s legal move.

 

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โ€œIs This BJPโ€™s Nationalism Or Terrorism?โ€: Youth Congress Posters Across Delhi Over Udaipur Killerโ€™s Link With Saffron Party

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The Indian Youth Congress (IYC), amid outrage over the Bharatiya Janata Partyโ€™s (BJP) alleged link with one of the attackers in the Udaipur killing, has now put up posters across the national capital, asking, โ€œIs this the BJPโ€™s nationalism or terrorism?โ€

The massive posters, also showing the links of terrorist Talib from Jammu with the BJP, have been put up at various places in Delhi.

The Congress has opened an attack against the ruling BJP over the Udaipur murder accusedโ€™s links with he party, and questioned the Centre on handing over the investigation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Congress leader Pawan Khera, referring to some media reports claiming a connection between accused Riyaz Attari and a BJP leader, said: โ€œWe did our research on those claims and found old Facebook posts of Rajasthan BJP leaders where Riyaz Attari was mentioned as โ€˜BJP karyakartaโ€™.โ€

โ€œTwo incidents in the past week have exposed the two-faced Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). First, we learned that one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lalโ€™s horrific murder in Udaipur was a BJP worker. Then it emerged that a captured Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir was not only a BJP office-bearer who had previously been captured in photos with Home Minister Amit Shah and was planning to launch attacks on the Amarnath Yatra,โ€ the Congress leader added.

The Congressโ€™ recently appointed chairman of media and publicity also appealed to the people of the country to โ€œsee through the BJPโ€™s fake nationalism and its disturbing willingness to flirt with anti-national forces.โ€

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