The Nationalist Congress Party on Friday asked Twitter India to spell out its policy of blocking accounts and accused it of carrying out such acts "under pressure". NCP chief spokesperson and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik told reporters that the microblogging and social networking firm's decision to block and suspend the "handles" of Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi had raised several questions.

Gandhi's account was temporarily suspended by Twitter last week after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) issued a notice to Twitter asking it to act against the Congress leader's handle for tweeting pictures of the family of a minor victim of alleged rape and murder in Delhi last week. The NCPCR had cited the juvenile justice law that mandates the privacy of minor victims.