The official Twitter accounts of Indian National Congress and party Vice president Rahul Gandhi were hacked on Thursday and some messages laden with expletives and profanities posted on it, the party said.
Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account was hacked last night too and some obscene remarks were put out online for around an hour.
Confirming the development, Gandhi's office said efforts were being made to rectify the problem.
Taking to micro-blogging site, Congress party's chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "@INCIndia hacked by lumpen fascists. Free speech & right to disagree in India is under attack by licensed trolls. First @OfficeOfRG & now @INCIndia hacked by lumpen fascists. Free speech & right to disagree in India is under attack by licensed trolls."
Delhi Police has initiated a probe into the hacking of Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account and has written to the management of the social media site seeking necessary details.
"We have written to Twitter ti provide us log details such as the IP address of the hackers. We have started investigating the matter," a senior police official said.
After the hacking, Congress raised questions on the digital safety of all Indians and said it reflects disturbing insecurities of the prevalent "fascist culture" in the country.
Congress party is likely to raise the issue of hacking of verified twitter accounts of Rahul Gandhi and Congress in both the houses of the parliament.
Taking a serious note of the hacking of its Vice President's official Twitter account, the Congress party has targeted the government for lack of digital safety and said that if it could not protect a private platform for conversation, how it could ever protect the money and data of crores of people.
Asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seriously ponder over 'Digital India', 'Cashless India' and online payments, Surjewala said, "If you cannot protect a private platform for conversation of crores of the people of India, how can you ever protect them from being hacked in terms of their 'financial money' is also a question that the people of India need to think and ponder over."
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