Days after having his Twitter account blocked, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi may face trouble with his Instagram account too. Child rights body NCPCR on Friday asked Facebook to take action against the Congress leader’s Instagram profile for posting a photo of the family of the nine-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi.
“…the link to the Instagram video is being forwarded for taking appropriate action against the Instagram profile of Rahul Gandhi for violation of provisions of JJ Act, 2015, POCSO Act, 2012 and IPC and removal of the Instagram video from the platform,” National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said.
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Earlier this month, the NCPCR had written to Twitter, asking it to take action against Gandhi’s handle for posting the photo of the family. The microblogging site had responded by blocking Gandhi’s account.
Meanwhile, Gandhi, who has been posting his views on Instagram after Twitter blocked him, hit out at the microblogging site, calling its action an ‘interference in country’s politics’. In a sharp attack, Gandhi said Twitter was denying his millions of followers the right to an opinion and termed it as an attack on the democratic structure of the country.
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“It’s obvious now that Twitter is actually not a neutral, objective platform. It is a biased platform. It’s something that listens to what the government of the day says,” he said in a video message on YouTube.
Gandhi last week met the family of the nine-year-old girl and asserted that he is with them on the path to justice and “will not back down even an inch”.
Later, he posted a picture of his meeting with the girl’s parents on Twitter and wrote in Hindi, “Parents’ tears are saying only one thing – their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path to justice.”