Trinamool’s Saket Gokhale Arrested By Gujarat Police Over Tweet on Morbi Bridge Collapse, Claims Party

Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has alleged that its spokesperson Saket Gokhale was detained by Gujarat Police as a result of a tweet regarding the Morbi bridge collapse, alleging “political vendetta” by the BJP.
The government’s fact-checking unit recently identified Mr. Gokhale’s tweet in which he shared what appeared to be newspaper clippings that stated, “RTI revealed the PM’s visit to Morbi cost 30 crore,” however the party did not specify whose tweet it was.

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

According to a senior member of Bengal’s ruling party, Derek O’Brien, Saket Gokhale had taken a flight on Monday night from New Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan, from where he was “picked up” by Gujarat Police.

“At 2 in the morning on Tuesday, he called his Ma and told her that they are 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.

The Ahmedabad [police] cyber cell “cooked up the case against the RTI activist-turned-politician about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse,” he claimed. He omitted to specify which tweet.

Four days after it was reopened following renovation, a colonial-era suspension bridge in Morbi, Gujarat, collapsed on October 30 and killed over 130 people. The investigation has indicated that the municipal authorities were ineffective because the renovation contractor is said to have broken the rules.

Additionally, the Rajya Sabha member stated: “All of this cannot silence the opposition or the All India Trinamool Congress. The BJP is escalating its political vendetta.”

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