India, Oct. 11 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav's official Facebook account, which was suspended Friday evening, was restored on Saturday morning. The government swiftly denied any role in the suspension, but according to a person familiar with matter, the post that led to the action was allegedly a "violent sexual" post in nature.

Yadav has around 8.5 million followers on the platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta. The incident sparked a political back and forth between the SP and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even as Meta maintained that the account was restored after the issue was reviewed.

"We restored the page once the issue was brought to our notice," said Meta Spokesperson.

Union IT minister Ashwini...