Everyone is aware that US visit
of Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi was a super duper hit and the
reception he received at Madison Square Garden was like a Rock Star.
But one of the journalist of
alleged newstraders type, i.e. Shri Rajdeep Sardesai slapped an Indian outside Madison Square Garden. First of all lets see the full unedited video of the incident.
As it is widely known by now,
thanks to circulation of multiple videos on social media and a hard hitting
truthful show by Zee TV on Shri Rajdeep Sardesai, that it was Sardesai who
tried to provoke people into giving divisive answers. When Sardesai was not
able to get the answers needed by him he allegedly came down to the level of
rowdy ruffian and started abusing people.
No wonder, Sardesai was replied
in the same coin and this made Sardesai more aggressive making him dash to hit
someone who was offended by Sardesai’s behavior. The rest is History.
Innumerable people felt that
Sardesai had shamed the nation by behaving like a rowdy ruffian and raised the
issue using hashtag #HTSackRajdeep on Social Media including Facebook and
Twitter. I, Suresh Nakhua (twitter handle @sureshnakhua) was
also one of them. I also prepared a petition on change.org to be submitted
to Shri Aroon Purie, head of India Today group for sacking of Sardesai due to
his hooligan like behavior which shamed the nation.
What I witnessed suddenly on
evening of 29/09/2014 was that my twitter handle was suspended by Twitter
Authorities. I had not received any information / warning etc citing the
reasons for suspension for my twitter account. I had to make another twitter
handle @nakhuasuresh to fight this issue.
After raising lot of hue and cry
and very well supported by friends and well wishers who whole heartedly stood
by me using hashtag #IStandwithSureshNakhua, Twitter suddenly restored my
twitter handle @sureshnakhua and a just a terse (actually threatening) mail was
sent that account was restored after deletion of some tweet/s. Here is the screenshot of mail by twitter.
On communicating
with Twitter regarding which tweets were deleted, Twitter support turned
incommunicado and no reply has been received till 17/10/2014 evening.
What I am not able to understand
1) Why
was the Twitter handle @sureshnakhua suspended?
2) If
it was suspended due to valid reasons, why was it restored?
3) Which
tweet/s was/were deleted?
4) Why
is Twitter not communicating?
5) Was
the handle suspended to taking on Sardesai on his rowdy behavior?
Is decision making in Twitter so
arbitrary that they suspend and restore handle according to their whims and
fancies. Or is there a bigger story behind it. Were Sardesai and / or India
Today Group pressurizing Twitter to suspend my handle?
I am still awaiting the answer.