Like Venkiah Naidu, 5 senior functionaries of RSS have now lost their blue tick verification badges on Twitter.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat, his colleagues Suresh Soni, Arun Kumar, Suresh Joshi, and Krishna Kumar were among the accounts that lost the verification badges, according to sources in the right-wing volunteer organization.
The blue tick removal has further deteriorated the ties between the government and Twitter, who have been in an escalating standoff since the social media company classified certain posts by a few BJP leaders targeting the opposition Congress as “manipulated.”
Reportedly when the Vice President’s office raised objections, Mr. Naidu’s blue tick was restored within a few hours. The Ministry of Electronics and IT is expected to issue notice to Twitter asking why this was done without “prior intimation.”
“This is contempt of a constitutional post. Twitter wants to test India’s patience,” government sources said.
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As per a report published on NDTV, Like Mr. Naidu, the verification badges for the RSS functionaries were dropped for “inactivity” amid a recent revival of the verification process after a pause of few years that has seen Twitter review verified accounts and withdraw blue badges from inactive ones.
“Twitter’s rule says that if you have not logged in for the past six months, the account will be considered inactive and verification status will be withdrawn. All the RSS leaders had not tweeted anything in a while. Their accounts were created to avoid impersonation,” said a source in the RSS.