Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday described activist and occasion spokesperson Saket Gokhale as ‘fearless,’ after the latter was detained by the Gujarat Police for spreading alleged faux information on the Morbi bridge collapse tragedy.
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In his tweet praising Gokhale, Banerjee additionally stated the police’s motion was an ‘act of intimidation.’
“Fearless, he stood towards the ruling dispensation that trades lives for their very own revenue. In response, panic-stricken @BJP4India acquired out Nat’l Spokesperson @SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat Police. It is their folly to assume these acts of intimidation will make us to bow down!,” tweeted the Diamond Harbour MP, the digital quantity 2 in Trinamool after his aunt Mamata Banerjee, the occasion’s founder and West Bengal chief minister.
Earlier right this moment, TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP, Derek O’Brien, tweeted Gokhale – who joined Bengal’s ruling occasion in August final 12 months – was arrested late final evening after touchdown in Jaipur from New Delhi.
Chatting with Hindustan Instances on the situation of anonymity, a senior police officer stated the previous Congress supporter was picked up from Rajasthan’s Udaipur, and was being delivered to Ahmedabad for additional probe.
Based on individuals conscious of the matter, the motion was taken as he shared an ‘RTI’ that claimed ₹30 crore was spent on prime minister Narendra Modi’s go to to a hospital in Morbi to fulfill the injured. The RTI was debunked as being ‘faux’ by the Press Data Bureau (PIB), a nodal company of the Authorities of India.
Following this, an Ahmedabad resident filed a criticism towards Saket Gokhale, the individuals quoted above stated.
PM Modi visited the injured on November 1, two days after the tragedy in his residence state. As many as 135 individuals misplaced their lives because of the bridge collapse.