No plan to ban TikTok, Minister tells Lok Sabha

A BJP member sought to know if there was any counter-intelligence threat to the country from TikTok.

March 17, 2020 08:17 pm | Updated 08:20 pm IST - New Delhi

Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy. File

Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy. File

Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that the government received no inputs suggesting a counter-intelligence threat to the country from TikTok .

BJP member Subhas Sarkar sought to know whether the government had received any piece of intelligence from the U.S. on the negative effect of the popular application on India, and whether the government was considering a ban on it. Mr. Reddy said in a written reply, “There is no such proposal.”

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