X's Head of Policy for India and South Asia Samiran Gupta resigns amid election preparations

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Gupta's LinkedIn profile, his tenure at X concluded in September. His profile indicates that he facilitated the transition in leadership for Twitter following the acquisition by Elon Musk's X-Corp. Gupta had joined the company in February 2022, just eight months prior to Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc, adds the report.

X considers India a crucial market, boasting approximately 27 million users. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and various government officials are frequent users of the platform. According to the same report, there are approximately 15 X employees in roles related to compliance and engineering in India.

However, Gupta was the sole executive responsible for liaising with the government and political parties. Interactions between X and government and party officials would typically increase in intensity during the lead-up to elections, and India is set to hold a national election next year. X is currently in the process of appealing an Indian court's ruling, which stated that the company had not adequately adhered to government directives to remove specific content.

X argues that this ruling could potentially empower New Delhi to further restrict content and expand the boundaries of censorship. In September, India informed a court that X is a platform that habitually fails to comply with directives, consistently disregarding numerous orders to remove content. This conduct has been seen as undermining the government's authority and role.