MINISTER VIJ’S DESTRUCT CALL

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Vij - in which he has said those embedded with "seeds of anti-nationalism... should be destroyed... whether Disha Ravi or anyone else" - has been investigated and "is not subject to removal" under rules governing extreme speech online, Twitter said Monday af ternoon. Hours earlier Twitter issued a notice to Vij, saying it had deleted the tweet based on a complaint from a user in Germany under a local law. The full tweet (in Hindi) has since been restored and translates into: "If seeds of antinationalism have been sown in somebody's thought process, he/she should be destroyed from roots... whether she is Disha Ravi or anyone else."