New Delhi: Two weeks after Meta India head Ajit Mohan quit to take another job at rival Snap, Meta’s country head of public policy, Rajiv Aggarwal, also stepped down today, the social media giant confirmed. WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose has also resigned, Meta said in a statement. Rajiv Aggarwal has decided to step down from his role at Meta to pursue another opportunity, the statement said, wishing him all the best for his future endeavours. Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, thanked Abhijit Bose for his “enormous contributions” as the first head of WhatsApp in India. “His entrepreneurial drive has helped our team deliver new services that have benefited millions of people and businesses. There is much more WhatsApp can do for India and we are excited to continue helping drive India’s digital transformation,” he said Mr. Cathcart. The tech giant also announced the appointment of Shivnath Thukral, who was the Director of Public Policy for WhatsApp in India, as the Director of Public Policy for Meta in India across all its platforms. Mr Bose also announced his resignation on LinkedIn, saying he was “really excited” about his next job. “After a little break, I plan to get back into the business world,” he said, adding that his resignation had been planned for some time, “but because of the events of the past week” they wanted to put it on hold to “focus on supporting those affected by last week”. Facebook’s parent company Meta had announced mass layoffs in a blog post on Wednesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had apologized for the same and took “accountability for these decisions and how we got here.” More than 11,000 Meta employees have been laid off in the first major round of layoffs in the social media giant’s history. Meta is the latest of the tech giants to announce layoffs.
