Saket Gokhale of Trinamool was detained by the Gujarat Police after he posted a tweet about the collapse of the Morbi Bridge, the party claims.

  • Dec. 6, 2022, 11:20 a.m.

Alleging "political vendetta" by the BJP, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has claimed that its spokesperson, Saket Gokhale, has been arrested by Gujarat Police over a tweet about the Morbi bridge collapse.

The party did not specify which tweet, but the government's fact-check unit recently pinpointed Mr. Gokhale's tweet, in which he shared what looked like newspaper clippings saying "RTI revealed the PM's visit to Morbi cost 30 crore."

"This claim is fake," the Press Information Bureau said in its fact-check of December 1.

Saket Gokhale had taken a Monday night flight from New Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan, from where he was "picked up" by Gujarat Police, tweeted Derek O'Brien, a senior leader of Bengal's ruling party.

"At 2 in the morning on Tuesday, he called his Ma and told her that they were taking him to Ahmedabad, and he would reach Ahmedabad by noon today." " The police let him make that one two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings," Mr O'Brien further said.

He said the case against the RTI activist-turned-politician has been "cooked up by the Ahmedabad [police] cyber cell about Saket's tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse." He did not say which tweet.

In Gujarat's Morbi town, a colonial-era suspension bridge collapsed on October 30, killing over 130 people, just four days after it was reopened after renovation. The probe has pointed towards the failure of the municipal authorities, as the renovation contractor allegedly did not follow the norms.

The Rajya Sabha member further said: "All this cannot silence the All India Trinamool Congress and the opposition." "BJP is taking political vendetta to another level."

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

Rajdhani delhi representative

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