Twitter restored the verified blue tick to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat's Twitter handle on Saturday. It had been removed a few hours earlier. The micro-blogging site also restored the verification badge of other key functionaries of the Sangh including Krishna Gopal. Mohan Bhagwat’s Twitter handle has over 215,400 followers and he only follows the official profile of the RSS. Bhagwat has not posted any tweets/retweets or shared any photos or videos yet.
Earlier on Saturday, sources in the RSS told news agency ANI that for the past several days, Twitter had removed the verification badge from the accounts of famous Sangh leaders including Arun Kumar, former general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi, and former leader Suresh Soni, which got verified in 2019.On Saturday, Twitter also restored the blue tick or "verified" badge on the personal handle of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu hours after it was dropped. The Indian government flagged the verification removal to the social media giant. Twitter responded that it was done by the algorithm due to a long period of inactivity in terms of logging in.