Congress on Sunday dared Twitter India to lock its accounts, a day after the social media company locked party leader Rahul Gandhi’s handle over a post of his meeting the family of a nine-year-old Dalit girl, who died after an alleged sexual assault.
"@TwitterIndia lock our accounts, we challenge you. Nothing will stop us from fighting for justice & exposing the truth," the opposition party posted along with hashtag all party members calling themselves Rahul. The opposition party also tweeted the photograph of Rahul Gandhi meeting the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl, who died after being raped by a priest and three other men at a crematorium near Delhi Cantonment.
"We are highly enraged with what has happened, because this is extremely selective. I can write of 10 accounts, 10 handles, that have pictures, but, that is not the point, the point is that a Dalit girl, a very poor child, a 9 year old
child has been gang raped, burnt alive, all that the parents have got her parts of her legs. Can you imagine how traumatizing that must be and somebody who want to stand with that family and ensure justice, you drop his tweet and block his account, so to Twitter I will say, ‘Daro Mat, Ye Dara Nahin Sakte Humein’," said Congress leaders Supriya Shrinate, Alka Lamba and Ragini Nayak at AICC Press conference.
Shrinate regretted the fact that New India is counting more on crime against women and dalit, death tolls due to callousness of government, unemployment and many more unfortunate things. The Congress women leaders said that Congress and their leaders will continue to fight against the incumbent rotten system.