The government had recently amended laws to govern social media giants including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter [1]. These laws were introduced during the protests against the farm laws when government had requested Twitter to take down a number of accounts:
> The new rules come on the heels of a tense standoff between Twitter and the Indian government. Twitter reinstated several accounts that the government had ordered it to take down for using what it called "incendiary and baseless" hashtags related to farmers protesting against new agricultural reforms. The platform ultimately took down hundreds of accounts and partially restricted others, but drew a line by refusing to block accounts of journalists, activists and politicians.
The public policy directory at Facebook had opposed applying the company’s hate-speech rules to a politician from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party who had in posts called Muslims traitors [2].
> The WSJ article said Das had told staff that applying hate-speech rules to politicians close to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “would damage the company’s business prospects in the country.”
[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/india-restores-4...
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/tech/india-twitter-facebo...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive-...