India has "no rule to give permission to foreign nationals" to appear before a parliamentary committee, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said in an interview to UNI.
Birla's comments were made in the context of Facebook whistleblower Sophie Zhang saying last year that she had offered to testify before a house panel on the social media company's reluctance to act against fake accounts in India. On June 1, Zhang told Indian Express she did not expect Birla to "provide his consent at this point" – a requirement for a foreign national to provide testimony.
