Nationalist vs Raheel Khursheed: Twitter India Head trolled for being Kashmiri after singers Sonu Nigam & Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s exit

Raheel Khursheed has been blamed for the Abhijeet Bhattacharya's Twitter account suspension and natinoalists are asking him to step down from his post!

Updated: May 25, 2017 1:22 PM IST

By Aishwarya Krishnan

Nationalist vs Raheel Khursheed: Twitter India Head trolled for being Kashmiri after singers Sonu Nigam & Abhijeet Bhattacharya's exit

Indian singer, Abhijeet Bhattacharya had his account suspended by Twitter for his extremely sexist and demeaning tweets that hurt the sentiments of various Twitter users. Following this decision, Sonu Nigam announced that he is quitting Twitter blaming the social media platform of being unjust and biased. The moment this decision was taken, Indian nationalists on the micro-blogging website unleashed their hatred on Twitter India Head, Raheel Khursheed, and blamed him for the entire issue. Kashmir-born Raheel Khursheed has had several battles with Twitter users and has become a victim of online hate once again. Sonu Nigam offers to delete Twitter Account after fellow playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s profile suspended: Read his last Tweets.

Twitter is full of hate comments and abuses for the head of News Partnerships at Twitter who is often blamed for any step that the website takes. Hailing from a Kashmiri household, the Indian head at Twitter has been termed anti-national by the so-called patriots who are currently attacking him with the hashtag, #IStandWithAbhijeet. While various sensible people have applauded Twitter’s move against a known troll, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, others feel that the decision was unjust and biased. One such believer of Sonu Nigam, who took the drastic step of leaving the social media platform altogether. Twitter comes clean amidst Abhijeet’s suspended account, Paresh Rawal’s Deleted Tweet & Sonu Nigam’s exit! Know all about Twitter’s safety rules.

This step added fuel to the fire and increased the amount of hate that the Yale Fellow has been receiving. The tweets range from simple complaints about the unjust decision to accusations that Raheel had actually plotted the entire incident. Cuss words and offensive language is also being used to bash the Twitter head and make fun of his origin. Angry nationalists are all united asking Twitter India to remove this head who is single-handedly being blamed for the entire incident. Here are some of the rude comments and abuses passed on Raheel Khursheed.

1. Raheel was blamed for Sonu’s exit

2. Memes were made

3. A detailed chart was presented

4. The #IStandWithAbhijeet squad

5. Nationalists asked Raheel to be removed!

6. Sonam Mahajan was once again brought in news

7. And petitions were made

This is not the first time that the Indian Twitter head has been dragged into controversy and been trolled and bullied online. In February this year, Raheel Khursheed faced the wrath of Twitter when Twitter suspended the account of the user, Sonam Mahajan for releasing old pictures of Dangal actress Zaira Wasim’s mother’s posts, which appeared extremely anti-national. The pictures released by Sonam Mahajan led to a lot of hate and abuse on Twitter, and the social media company took action against the user. However, Raheel became a target back then as well, because of his Kashmiri connections and was only spared when he expressed his frustration on Twitter and asked people to complain with Twitter Safety account!

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