MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar supported Musk's plan to reinstate Trump

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India’s Minister of State for Electronics and IT

has said that de-platforming is "a violation of fundamental rights of users". Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated this after Twitter founder and the former CEO, Jack Dorsey supported Elon Musk's plan to bring back the suspended account of the former US President Donald Trump to the popular micro-blogging platform. In a tweet on Wednesday, Chandrasekhar said, "Deplatforming is a big deal - It's a violation of fundamental rights of users and must have the force of law behind it for any platform to exercise and must never ever be done arbitrarily.”

Earlier, the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk

commented that if he acquires the social media company, he would restore Donald Trump's banned account on Twitter. On Tuesday,  at the 'Future of the Car' event, Elon Musk said, "I think it was a morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme." 

While expressing his view on this matter, Prasanto K Roy, a cyber and tech policy expert said,  "This is clearly an expression of the government's belief that de-platforming or taking down any elected head of government or senior government official is a no-no, as far as India is concerned and it's probably also a veiled warning to Twitter or Facebook or anybody not to dream of doing that in India."