Did Twitter simply hearth Mahima Kaul, its principal face in India, over the spat with the Indian govt?

Twitter’s Public Policy Director, Mahima Kaul has resigned from her put up from January this 12 months however will proceed engaged on the place until March-end to facilitate a clean transition. The similar was attested by the truth that Twitter India has a LinkedIn advert displaying the American firm is in search of candidates for the important thing authorities relations place for India and South Asia. While these within the know of the event have advised numerous media retailers that Mahima Kaul resigned on account of “personal reasons”, not many are satisfied and consider that Kaul’s resignation has loads to do with Twitter’s latest spat with the Modi authorities. “At the start of this year, Mahima Kaul decided to step down from her role as Twitter Public Policy Director for India and South Asia to take a well-deserved break. It’s a loss for all of us at Twitter, but after more than five years in the role we respect her desire to focus on the most important people and relationships in her personal life. Mahima will continue in her role till the end of March and will support the transition,” Monique Meche, Vice President, Twitter Public Policy, mentioned in a press release.It isn’t fully unimaginable that Twitter let go of Mahima Kaul, and shrouded it as a ‘resignation’ of types. While that is hypothesis at greatest, it isn’t fully a proposition holding no benefit. Twitter India, on the behest of American executives, has been overtly and overtly defying central authorities directives, notably regarding taming of accounts and handles tweeting vitriol underneath the premise of farmers’ protests.TFI had earlier reported that Twitter had infuriated the Modi authorities, which lambasted the social media big for taking over the function of an “appellate authority” even above the Central authorities of India. Due to its misadventures, Twitter was slapped with a closing discover, asking for the microblogging website to adjust to the Indian IT Ministry’s earlier directive, or face penal motion. TFI had additionally reported that non-compliance on the a part of Twitter to the IT Ministry order might have dire penalties for it, and now it appears the very first indicators of the microblogging website cracking up are rising. Read extra: Twitter restores 250 Twitter accounts posting incendiary content material after taking them downMahima Kaul was hardly a pal of the democratically elected authorities of India. When it involves her opinions on BJP and PM Modi notably, abusive vitriol was free-flowing on her timeline earlier than her becoming a member of Twitter because the Public Policy Director in 2015. As an individual together with her biases proper in place, the Modi authorities has discovered it annoyingly troublesome to work with Twitter. With the microblogging website defying the IT Ministry order to dam over 250 accounts lately, nonetheless, it appears the Public Policy Director’s skilled epitaph was written, and Twitter India as a complete might be subsequent in line.Twitter is run by Modi haters.Mahima Kaul @misskaul Director Policy @TwitterIndia has made these offensive tweets on our PM.Despite protests no motion was taken towards her.@jack even took her to satisfy PM. Don’t perceive how PM workers let her in for the appt. pic.twitter.com/c1lK6cVCbx— Kumar (@Narayankumar100) November 26, 2018The resignation of Mahima Kaul was not ‘natural’. This is clear from the truth that the Modi authorities, after information unfold of the Public Policy Director ‘quitting’ her put up, despatched one other discover to Twitter, calling for the suspension of one other 1,178 accounts, suspected to be linked to Khalistan sympathisers or backed by Pakistan over the misuse of the micro-blogging platform concerning the farmers’ protests. It is but to be seen whether or not Twitter complies by the recent directives, failure of which can lead to devastating penalties for the American social media platform in India.