Saket Gokhale
Trinamool spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat police over Morbi bridge collapse tweet, claims Derek O'Brien
New Delhi/Kolkata:Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien on Tuesday claimed the Gujarat police have arrested Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale over a tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse incident.
Derek alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has taken 'political vendetta' to another level.
He said Saket was 'picked up' by the police after he reached Jaipur city in Rajasthan.
TMC national spokesperson @SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat Police.
— Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 6, 2022
Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Mon. When he landed, Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and picked him up. 1/3
"TMC national spokesperson@SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat Police. Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Mon. When he landed, Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and picked him up," Derek tweeted.
At 2 in the morning on Tue, 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. 2/3
— Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 6, 2022
"At 2 in the morning on Tue, 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," he said.
The cooked up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse.
— Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 6, 2022
All this cannot silence @AITCofficial and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level. 3/3
"The cooked up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. All this cannot silence @AITCofficialand the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level," he said.
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