Facebook’s India head Ajit Mohan testified before a parliamentary panel on Wednesday in which he said no content of Bajrang Dal is in violation of its social media policies, PTI reported quoting sources. Mohan said Facebook’s fact-checking team has so far found no such element that necessitates a ban on the ultra-right-wing organisation.

Bajrang Dal is the youth-wing of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of which the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is also an affiliate.

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Mohan deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. The panel had called him on the issue of the citizens’ data safety.

He was accompanied by Shivnath Thukral, the public policy director of Facebook.

He testified before the committee after The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report that despite an internal assessment calling for a ban on the Bajrang Dal, Facebook has not cracked down on the Hindu nationalist group due to these reasons.

In its report, the WSJ cited a video posted in June that showed Bajrang Dal claiming responsibility for an attack on a church outside the capital New Delhi. The group installed a Hindu idol at the church, claiming it was built atop a Hindu temple.

Replying to queries, Mohan suggested to the panel members that the Facebook fact team consultant has so far not found any such element in the content posted by the Bajrang Dal that is violative of its social media policies.

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Further quizzing him, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asked if the Bajrang Dal content was not found to be violative of its social media policies, then why did Facebook not deny the WSJ report and termed it as fake.