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TMC Leader Saket Gokhale Arrested By Gujarat Police Over Tweet on Morbi Bridge Collapse, Claims Party

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Saket Gokhale had taken a Monday night flight from New Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan, from where he was โ€œpicked upโ€ by Gujarat Police, tweeted Derek Oโ€™Brien, a senior leader of Bengalโ€™s ruling party.

New Delhi: Accusing the BJP of โ€œpolitical vendettaโ€, West-Bengal CM  Mamata Banerjeeโ€™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 exactly, but the governmentโ€™s fact-check unit had recently pinpointed Mr Gokhaleโ€™s tweet in which he shared what looked like newspaper clippings saying that โ€œRTI revealed the PMโ€™s visit to Morbi cost โ‚น 30 croreโ€.

โ€œThis claim is fake,โ€ the Press Information Bureau (@PIBFactCheck) said.

Saket Gokhale had taken a Monday night flight from New Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan, from where he was โ€œpicked upโ€ by Gujarat Police, tweeted Derek Oโ€™Brien, a senior leader of Bengalโ€™s ruling party.

โ€œAt 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,โ€ Mr Oโ€™Brien further said.

He said the case against the RTI activist-turned-politician has been โ€œcooked up by the Ahmedabad [police] cyber cell about Saketโ€™s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapseโ€. He did not say which tweet.

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

The Rajya Sabha member further said: โ€œAll this cannot silence All India Trinamool Congress and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level.โ€

Neither the BJP nor the Gujarat government has reacted yet. News agency PTI contacted Jaipur airport police in-charge Digpal Singh, who said: โ€œI have no information. Nobody informed us.โ€

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