‘Wrong, If True’: Arvind Kejriwal on Twitter Ex-CEO’s Farm Protest Claim

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ It is “wrong” if attempts were made to scuttle farmers’ protests, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey alleged the government threatened to stop the company’s India operations if posts critical of the ruling dispensation during the agitation were not removed.

In an interview, Mr. Dorsey alleged that during the farmers’ protest the government also threatened to raid the homes of Twitter employees if the company didn’t listen to what was being told.

“It is unfair… if someone tried to scuttle the farmers’ protests, it is wrong,” Mr. Kejriwal said on the sidelines of an event here. Mr. Dorsey’s statement evoked a sharp rebuttal from Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who termed it an “outright lie”. The Minister of State for IT tweeted that Mr. Dorsey’s Twitter regime “had a problem accepting the sovereignty of Indian law”.

“No one went to jail nor was twitter ‘shutdown’,” Mr. Chandrasekhar said. The BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya also came down heavily on the former Twitter CEO, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022 when Mr. Dorsey was at the helm of affairs.