TMC Spokesperson Arrested: TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat Police, accused of spreading rumors on Morbi Bridge Collapse
TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale has been arrested by the Gujarat Police from Jaipur airport in Rajasthan.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) national spokesperson and RTI activist Saket Gokhle was arrested by the Gujarat Police on Monday. He has been arrested by Gujarat Police from Jaipur Airport in Rajasthan. TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien has informed about the arrest of Saket Gokhale. Saket Gokhale is accused of spreading fake news about Prime Minister Modi (PM Narendra Modi) during the Morbi Bridge Collapse.
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien informed about Saket’s arrest. He tweeted, “On Monday, Saket took a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur at 9 pm. When he landed, the Gujarat Police was waiting for him at the airport in Rajasthan and picked him up at 2 am on Tuesday. He called his mother and told her that they are taking him to Ahmedabad and he will reach Ahmedabad by this afternoon. The police allowed Saket to make a two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings.”
Derek O’Brien further wrote, “A sponsored case has been registered in Ahmedabad cyber cell regarding Saket Gokhale’s tweet on Morbi bridge collapse. All this cannot silence the Trinamool Congress and the opposition. The BJP is taking political vendetta to another level.
Let us tell you that Saket Gokhale had claimed on December 1 last that Rs 30 crore was spent on arrangements for PM Modi’s visit to Morbi in Gujarat after the Morbi bridge collapse. To this Saket Gokhale posted a Gujarati newspaper cutout on Twitter, quoting an RTI claim that Rs 30 crore was spent for the PM’s visit to Morbi in just a few hours. A case was filed against Saket Gokhale regarding this and he is accused of spreading wrong information.
Let us tell you that the Gujarat High Court has given notice to the state government on the Morbi accident. Saket Gokhale had claimed that Rs 5.5 crore was spent on the reception and photography of PM Modi. He also said that the PM’s event management is worth more than the lives of 135 people.
