Arjun Modhwadia files complaint for getting life threatening call

Ahmedabad, 4 November 2014

Gujarat Congress President Arjun Modhwadia has filed police complaint in ‘B’ division police station of Mehsana for receiving a life threat from an anonymous phone caller when he was on way to Mehsana on Sunday.

Phone number from which Modhwadia received a call could be a computer generated number as it was 17-18-digit long, Shri Modhwadia believed.

Mehsana police Special Operation Group(SOG) is investigating the case.

According to the complaint, the caller first asked Modhwadia to express his views on the ‘anti-Gujarati’ remarks made by Nitesh Rane, a Congress leader from Maharashtra, and asked him to leave the party. The caller, who was talking in Gujarati, also asked Modhwadia to join the BJP and assured him that he could fix a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he wanted.

Modhwadia said firs the caller started abusing him for some time and then he threatened to kill him. The caller told him that he was doing a great harm to BJP and that he could fix his meeting with Prime Minister, if he was ready to join BJP. The call continued for 5-7 minutes. Modhwadia said the caller was talking in Gujarati.