Gujarat Police arrests TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale claims Derek O’Brien

New Delhi: A claim was made today morning by Trinamool Congress (TMC) that Gujarat Police arrested their National spokesperson Saket Gokhale on December 6th from Rajasthan when he landed at the Jaipur Airport.

In a series of tweets Rajya Sabha MP from TMC, Derek O’Brien said, “TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale was arrested by Gujarat Police. Saket took a 9 pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Monday. When he landed, Gujarat Police were at the airport in Rajasthan waiting for him and they picked him up.”

“At 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,” he added.

Calling this arrest a political vendetta, O’Brien further wrote that “The cooked-up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. All this cannot silence TMC and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level.”

However, there is no statement about whether this arrest happened or not from the Gujarat Police so far. Rajasthan police have also told the media that they have no such information.

Saket Gokhale, National Spokesperson of TMC on December 1, tweeted a fake news report that said that some RTI revealed that the Prime minister’s visit to Morbi after the bridge collapse incident cost ₹30 cr. This claim was immediately refuted by the Bhartiya Janta Party on the very same day.

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