Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 16: Facebook India’s Public Policy Director Shivnath Thukral and Director (Legal) GV Anand Bhushan will appear before Delhi Assembly’s Committee on Peace and Harmony in connection with the Delhi riots on November 18.
“We again thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee on Peace and Harmony (“Committee”) to provide our views to assist the Committee in its ‘aims to recommend preventative and remedial measures concerning issues of governance, social cohesion, unity, brotherhood and peace’ and ‘to strengthen overall social and economic development’ through communal harmony. Facebook shares the Committee’s aim to improve harmony among religious communities, linguistic communities, and social groups,” Thukral wrote in an official letter.
Notably, in February 2020, violence took place in the northeast area of Delhi between two groups over the Citizenship Amendment Act. Following this, the Delhi Legislative Assembly constituted the Peace and Harmony Committee to probe the Delhi riots. This committee is chaired by AAP leader Raghav Chadha.
The Supreme Court on July 9, 2021 held the Delhi Assembly’s Peace and Harmony committee’s right to question Facebook India officials as valid. Following this On October 29, Delhi Legislative Assembly’s committee on ‘Peace and Harmony’ decided to call upon Facebook India to send an appropriate senior representative on “role of social media in curbing the spread of false and malicious messages which can fan disharmony and affect peace”.
