The BJP Government has adopted the “toolkit of dictatorship” that it borrowed from British imperialists, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Tuesday, after former Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was threatened with shutdown unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts during the farmers’ protest.
The Centre has rejected Mr. Dorsey’s claims and instead attacked him saying that under his tenure the social media platform routinely broke Indian law. He quit Twitter in 2021 and made these claims in an interview with a YouTube news show ‘Breaking Points’ on Monday.
Mr. Kharge hit out at the government saying that the BJP is “embarrassing” the country. In a long post in Hindi on Twitter, he said the ruling party’s progenitor, the RSS, had worked for the British and against Indians during the freedom struggle.
