TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested ???
TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested from jaipur, was accused of defaming PM Modi in the Morbi incident
Saket Gokhale, the national spokesperson of the trinamool congress and close to mamata banerjee, was arrested by the gujarat police on monday from jaipur Airport in Rajasthan.Saket Gokhale, the national spokesperson of the trinamool congress and close to mamata banerjee, was arrested by the gujarat police from jaipur Airport in rajasthan late on monday night. Gokhale is accused of spreading false news about prime minister Modi on the Morbi incident. The arrest was informed by his party colleague and rajya sabha MP Derek O'Brien. O'Brien tweeted that TMC's national spokesperson Saket Gokhale has been arrested by the gujarat police from jaipur Airport. On monday, Saket took a flight from New delhi to jaipur at 9 pm. When he landed, the gujarat police were waiting for him at the jaipur airport and arrested him. Gokhale's phone and belongings were seized after talking to their motherAccording to O'Brien, after his arrest, Gokhale called his mother at 2 am on tuesday and told her that the gujarat police were taking him to ahmedabad and that he would reach ahmedabad by this afternoon. The police allowed him to make a phone call of only two minutes and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings.
Allegations of defaming PM Modi on Morbi incident. On december 1, 2022, TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale claimed that Rs 30 crore was spent for only a few hours for PM Modi's visit to Morbi in gujarat after the bridge collapse incident. Quoting the so-called report, Gokhale had claimed that Rs 5.5 crore was purely for reception, event management, and photography. He also claimed that Modi's event management and PR cost more than the lives of 135 people. Because the families of the 135 victims of the tragedy were given only Rs 4 lakh each as ex-gratia.