Congress says party's official account blocked by Twitter
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday alleged that the party's official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site.
This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account after he shared pictures of the family of the nine-year-old alleged rape and murder victim last week in violation of the law.
Congress social media department head Rohan Gupta said the party's official Twitter account and around 5,000 accounts of its top leaders and workers have been blocked by Twitter.
He alleged that Twitter is acting against Congress leaders under pressure from the government.
"Twitter is clearly acting under government's pressure, as it did not remove the same pictures shared by the Twitter accounts of National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a few days," Gupta said.
The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretaries Randeep Surjewala, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have also been locked, the party said.
"So! After Shri @RahulGandhi, the Lord @narendramodi Ji and Vassal @Jack & @twitter have locked @rssurjewala, @ajaymaken & @sushmitadevinc. @INCIndia registers its protest and promises to continue the fight for each and all being wronged! We shall hold on @AshwiniVaishnaw Ji," tweeted Pranav Jha, AICC secretary in-charge of party's Communications Department last night. His account was later blocked too at night.
"The list goes on. @Twitter locks @JitendraSAlwar and @manickamtagore and many more. Doesn't Modi Ji understand that we @INCindia'ns have a legacy of fighting even from behind the locks of kaala paani," he had asked in another tweet.
"He thinks the virtual locks of Twitter will deter us from fighting for India," Jha said.
The Congress has accused Twitter of acting against Gandhi's account under pressure from the government.
Gandhi had tweeted pictures with the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Delhi last week.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) took cognisance of Gandhi's tweet and directed Twitter to act against the Congress leader's account for violating the privacy of a minor victim, mandated by the laws of the land.
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TN secures 95.03 pass percentage in Class 12 board exams this year
Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu class XII board exam results were released on Friday and 95.03 per cent of students who wrote the exams registered a pass this year.
Releasing the results, the School Education Department officials here said that Erode district registered the highest pass percentage of 98.87, followed by Sivaganga district with 98.05 per cent. With 95.43 per cent of pass, Chennai figured in the 20th position.
This year, the girls outshine the boys by securing a pass percentage of 97. Boys could secure only 93.19 per cent.
Of the 7,536 higher secondary schools, the officials said that a total of 2,639 private schools and 489 government schools have secured 100 per cent pass percentage.
Accordingly, of 7,91,654 students who took the exams, as many as 7,53,694 have secured passing marks. The overall pass percentage of the Science stream was 96.90, while the pass percentage among Commerce group students was 92.67.
