Congress leaders get notices from X for sharing video clips of Amit Shah’s speech in Rajya Sabha

The Congress on Thursday said that a few party leaders and its official handle received notices from the social media platform X for violating laws by sharing video clips of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The party was referring to clips of Shah’s comments about BR Ambedkar. “It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar,” he was heard saying in the clip. “If they had taken God’s name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven.”

Shah made the remark on Tuesday during his speech on the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha.

Following his remarks, Congress leaders shared the clips on social media and demanded the home minister’s resignation, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader had insulted Ambedkar. Shah, however, alleged that the Congress presented a distorted version of his speech in the Rajya Sabha.

On Thursday, Supriya Shrinate, the head of the Congress’ social media department, said that a few party leaders, including Jairam Ramesh and herself, had received the email a day earlier from X about the clips. The notice did not mention what laws were violated, she said.

Last evening, a bunch of us from Congress, our party's official handle, including myself, received a mail from X, formerly Twitter. This mail clearly indicates that the...

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