Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused Twitter of "attacking Indian democracy" after it locked accounts of top party leaders, including his own.
The accounts were locked after they tweeted a photo of the parents of a nine-year-old, who was allegedly raped and murdered in the capital, Delhi.
The Congress party accused Twitter of acting on orders from the ruling party.
But Twitter said the photo violated their privacy rules which were "enforced judiciously and impartially".
Mr Gandhi, who has nearly 20 million followers, said in a video message on Friday that by shutting his account, Twitter was interfering with India's political process.
"This is not, you know, simply shutting Rahul Gandhi down. I have 19-20 million followers. You are denying them the right to an opinion. That's what you are doing," he said.
Twitter deleted Mr Gandhi's post after India's child rights body asked it to remove the photograph from its platform, pointing out that it revealed the identity of the rape victim - which is forbidden under Indian law.
As Mr Gandhi refused to delete the image, the micro-blogging site locked his account on 6 August and he has been unable to tweet since then. Over the past few days, the official account of the Congress party, several of its leaders and "about 5,000 volunteers" - who had retweeted Mr Gandhi - have also been locked.
(Source: BBC news website, headline composed by Newsroom, photo from Google)
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