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Saket Gokhale’s Detention Is A Panic-Stricken BJP’s Reaction: TMC

Dec 6, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

Gujarat police has detained TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale over a tweet endorsing an alleged fake news report about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse there (Image: PTI)

(Source: PTI)

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday described the detention of party spokesperson Saket Gokhale by Gujarat police as a reaction of a “panic stricken” BJP. TMC will not bow down to such “acts of intimidation”, he said.

“Fearless, Gokhale stood against the ruling dispensation that trades lives for its own profit. In reaction, panic-stricken @BJP4India got our national spokesperson @SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat police. It is their (BJP’s) folly to think these acts of intimidation will make us (TMC) to bow down!” Banerjee tweeted.

Gujarat police has detained Gokhale over a tweet endorsing an alleged fake news report about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse there. It apprehended the TMC spokesperson from Jaipur in Rajasthan during the early hours of Tuesday. The bridge collapse on October 31 had claimed 135 lives.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien gave the sequence of events leading to Gokhale’s detention and described the case filed with the Ahmedabad Cyber Cell as “cooked up”.

“Saket took a 9 pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Monday. When he landed, Gujarat Police was at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and picked him up. At 2 am on Tuesday, he called up his mother and told her that they (Gujarat police) were taking him to Ahmedabad and he would reach there by noon today (Tuesday). The (Gujarat) police let him make that two-minute call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings,” O’Brien tweeted.

“All this cannot silence @AITCofficial and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level,” he said.

TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh termed Gokhale’s “arrest” as “utterly disgraceful” and said that the act showed that the BJP is trying to build an “autocratic nation”. He also claimed that the BJP’s days at the Centre are numbered.

Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday backed Gokhale and said she condemned the BJP government’s “vindictive attitude”. Banerjee, who is visiting Rajasthan, also claimed that Gokhale made no mistake.

“It’s a very bad, and sad (incident). Saket (Gokhale) is a bright man. He is very popular on social media. He has made no mistake,” Banerjee told reporters at Jaipur airport. “I condemn this vindictive attitude. He (Saket) has been arrested because he tweeted against the Prime Minister. People also tweet against me… We are really feeling sorry about the situation,” she said before heading for Pushkar.

Gokhale recently tweeted a news clipping which apparently appeared to have been published in a leading Gujarati newspaper. It claimed that a query under the right to information revealed that the Gujarat government had spent Rs 30 crore on Modi’s visit to Morbi after a bridge collapsed there in October.

The bridge tragedy had claimed 135 lives.

Tags: Morbi bridge collapse, Pratirodh, Saket Gokhale, TMC, Trinamool Congress

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