In the run up to the pre-announced foundation day event of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad , the students wing of All India Trinamool Congress, on August 28, numerous Facebook and WhatsApp accounts were banned, wrote Derek O Brien, TMCs Rajya Sabha leader, in a letter to Facebook on August 31.
The MP, in his letter, also attached a list of the blocked accounts and numbers and urged Facebook to take immediate action and remedial measures.
In another letter to the company, OBrien alleged that the development before the polls suggested a link between the ruling party at the Centre and the BJP.
With the election in the Indian state of West Bengal just months away, your companys recent blocking of Facebook pages and accounts in Bengal also points to link between Facebook and the BJP. There is enough material now in the public domain, including internal memos of senior Facebook management, to substantiate the bias, OBrien wrote in the second letter.
Earlier, the Congress wrote to Facebook, accusing its India team of interfering with the countrys electoral democracy and demanded an inquiry.