The police 바카라visit바카라 came after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEIT)바카라s strong communication to Twitter on May 21 registering its objection to labelling in a matter already pending before a law enforcement agency. It asked Twitter to 바카라remove the tag바카라 as it would interfere with the police investigation. In its editorial on May 25, a prominent Indian daily called this directive 바카라arbitrary censorship바카라 and not legal as the IT Act empowered the government only to regulate content, not order the removal of a label. It went on to claim that 바카라the Government of India is willing to go to any lengths to empower BJP functionaries to tarnish political opponents and misinform the public바카라.
Also, the stern affidavit from MEIT on May 26 calling WhatsApp바카라s move to approach the Supreme Court for review of the IT Rules 2021 as an act of 바카라defiance바카라 will also be of interest during Jaishankar바카라s discussions. This is because Biden바카라s Democrat administration and the BJP-led Indian government are not on the same page on the subjects of free expression and human rights.
Even without this, Jaishankar바카라s calendar would have been full to explain his government바카라s position to his interlocutors on various subjects. Apart from bilateral or multilateral issues, this would include New Delhi바카라s Covid management in the background of unprecedented adverse international publicity on alleged mishandling of oxygen and vaccine supplies resulting in record number of deaths, superimposed with ghastly visuals of bodies floating in the Ganga.
On May 25, Wall Street Journal made a connection between freedom of expression and poor Covid management: 바카라Authorities바카라 latest move in confronting US tech companies comes as government is under fire for its handling of the pandemic.바카라 It alleged that the 바카라police action comes as India has been taking steps to exert control over US tech firms in the country바카라. It said that the police 바카라visit바카라 was in the background of Twitter appending tweets by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and others as 바카라Manipulated Media바카라, a rule they started last year and enforced even in respect of a video of Biden 바카라circulated by one of then-President Trump바카라s top aides바카라.
This incident and also the arrest of four prominent TMC leaders, including two ministers, by the CBI on May 17 for involvement in a six-year-old sting bribery operation called Narada, so soon after the BJP바카라s humiliating electoral defeat on May 2, would indicate that the ruling party at the Centre would continue to use pliant central agencies to further its political agenda. Journalist Mathew Samuel, who had organised the sting operation, accused the CBI of being partial in investigation as TMC defectors Mukul Roy and Suvendu Adhikari were spared from arrests. This partial investigation by the CBI was also frowned upon by the Supreme Court on May 25. A prominent daily reported: 바카라The Bench questioned the partial approach of the Bureau in arresting a set of persons named in the FIR while sparing another set of TMC leaders who have now defected to the BJP.바카라