new delhi facebook announced on thursday that it has banned bjp politician t raja singh whose alleged posts put him recently at the centre of a wall street journal report and consequently a political maelstrom from its platform for violating its policies against hate speechwe have banned raja singh from facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our platform the process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove his account the company said in an email statement singh has been categorised as a dangerous individual and will not be allowed on facebook or instagram going forwardhours later singh claimed he did not have an fb account since april 2019 he also said he would write to facebook to open a new account for him and promised to follow the rules speaking to toi the 42yearold telangana mla said the pages banned by the social networking site might have been created by his followers my official account was hacked in 2019 after the assembly elections and i had lodged a complaint with cyberabad police i had even sent a request to facebook to revive my account he saidsingh came into wider focus after the wall street journal newspaper reported in august that his account was not suspended despite being flagged as dangerous internally for allegedly spreading hate against a minority community facebook india top executives including public policy head ankhi das had allegedly opposed his ban saying it would impact the companys business interests in india which is the social media companys biggest market in terms of number of userson thursday the wsj reported that at least five facebook pages dedicated to singh were suspended from the platform and showed the message this content isnt available right now when users tried opening them together these pages had over 300000 followers facebook groups devoted to him had also disappeared his instagram profile displayed a message saying sorry this page isnt available the link you followed may be broken or the page may have been removed the wsj article statedsingh wondered if facebook was working under congress pressure he said since april 2019 i am not on facebook so the question of banning me doesnt arise this is all happening because of rahul gandhis tweet some time agothe controversial legislator alleged rahul gandhi made false statements against bjp and pm narendra modi using these social media platforms i am being made a scapegoat by congress he added i am writing to union it minister ravi shankar prasad and facebook also he told toiearlier singh had disputed that he or his team ran the facebook page which shared inflammatory posts stating that his account had been hacked and blocked in 2018 but in a tweet dated april 1 2019 he had tweeted that facebook had unpublished his accountsingh has allegedly made several controversial statements in the past like rohingya should be