TMC leader arrested by Gujarat Police for tweet on Morbi incident, claims Derek O’Brien

TMC Saket Gokhale Arrested: Saket Gokhale, the national spokesperson of the Trinamool Congress and close to Mamta Banerjee, has been arrested by the Gujarat Police. The information about the arrest of the TMC spokesperson has been given by his own party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien.

The TMC MP said on Twitter that Saket Gokhale had taken a 9 pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Monday, when he landed in Jaipur, the Gujarat Police was already waiting for him at the Rajasthan airport, as soon as He got down from the Saket ship and was arrested.

Member of Parliament Derek O’Brien told that he called his mother at 2 pm on Monday and told that the police is taking him to Ahmedabad and he will reach Ahmedabad by this afternoon. The police let him make a phone call for two minutes and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings. The TMC MP said that the Ahmedabad Cyber ​​Cell has registered a case against Saket for his tweet on the collapse of the Morbi bridge. He said that all this cannot silence the Trinamool Congress and the opposition. Bharatiya Janata Party is taking political rivalry to another level.

Saket Gokhale had made these allegations

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Actually, the root of this whole controversy is the allegations of TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale, which he had leveled against PM Modi. Saket Gokhale had then claimed through RTI that Rs 5.5 crore was spent for the reception, event management and photography of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Morbi visit. The TMC spokesperson alleged that, while the government gave a compensation of only four lakhs to the families of 135 people who lost their lives in this accident, which is a total of five crores. Saket Gokhale said that the cost of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s event management was more than the compensation given to the families of 135 people.

PIB Fact Check debunked the claim

Rejecting the claim of TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale, the PIB Fact Check team termed it as fake. On behalf of the PIB Fact Check team, it was told that quoting an RTI, it is being claimed that Rs 30 crore was spent during PM Modi’s visit to Morbi, this claim is completely fake. It was told from PIB that no reply has been given to any such RTI.

PM Modi had visited

Prime minister Narendra Modi After the Morbi bridge accident, visited the accident site and met the relatives of the deceased. During this, PM Modi also visited the hospital and got to know the condition of the injured. PM Modi had announced Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the 135 people who lost their lives in the Morbi bridge accident and Rs 50 to the injured.

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