While Gujarat is all set for the assembly election results on December 8, the state police have today in the early morning arrested TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale from Jaipur airport for his tweet on Morbi bridge collapse that claimed that PM Modi바카라s visit to the site had cost Rs. 30 crores.
According to the reports of Indian Express, a complaint against Gokhale had been lodged by one senior BJP functionary Bhalabhai Kothari who 바카라was disturbed by Gokhale바카라s tweet바카라.
On December 1, Gokhale tweeted a photo of a newspaper claiming that PM바카라s visit to Morbi costs Rs. 30 crores. The PIB Fact Check, a government바카라s fact check unit immediately called it on and said that the claims are 바카라fake바카라. Gokhale바카라s tweet that referred to some RTI response was also fake, said PIB.
Gokhale바카라s tweet while sharing a newsclip said, 바카라RTI reveals that Modi바카라s visit to Morbi for a few hours cost Rs 30 cr. Of this Rs 5.5. Cr was purely for 바카라welcome, event management, & photography바카라. 135 victims who died got Rs 4 lac ex-gratia each i.e. Rs 5 cr. Just Modi바카라s event management & PR costs more than life of 135 people.바카라
Following the complaint of BJP leader Kothari, police registered an FIR and charged him of forgery, defamatory tweets and fear mongering.
According to the police, the newspaper Gujarat Samachar whose clippings Gokhale used has clarified that they haven바카라t published any such content making the citations 바카라fake바카라.
바카라Gokhale posted on social media and tweeted claiming a news report by Gujarat Samachar바카라 Prima facie the news report clippings cited are fake바카라 Gujarat Samachar has placed on record that they did not publish any such news report. Considering the massive tragedy where so many have died and the sensitivity of the issue, it had potential law and order ramifications,바카라 police said.
The police also said, 바카라Gokhale has been detained for questioning and once he reaches Ahmedabad we will see (regarding necessary proceedings)... He is claiming impersonation and we will add sections under the IT Act if the need arises.바카라
Notably, photos of Morbi municipality hospital being repaired ahead of Modi바카라s visit to the victims of Morbi bridge collapse took the social media to storms. The unfortunate bridge collapse at Morbi on October 30 led to 135 deaths and several injuries.
TMC calls it 바카라Political Vendetta바카라
National level leader of TMC, Derek O Brian earlier in a tweet said that Gokhale took a 9 pm flight from Delhi to Jaipur on Monday. Gujarat police was waiting for him at Jaipur and upon landing he was 바카라picked up바카라 by the state police.
Derek further added that the police only had let Gokhale make one call to his mother where he could inform her that he was being taken away by Gujarat police. The police had allegedly snatched away his phone, said the TMC leader.
바카라At 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,바카라 the tweet reads.
Without mentioning the tweet for which Gokhale was allegedly arrested, Derek said, 바카라The cooked-up case is filed with the Ahmedabad cyber cell about Saket바카라s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse.바카라
Derek called it 바카라political vendetta바카라 of the ruling BJP that has been trying to silence the TMC and any other dissenting voice.
Saket Gokhale바카라s recent strikes on Modi government over Cheetah Deal
Recently, Gokhale was found to be extremely vocal against the alleged deal India clinched with Namibia to get 8 Cheetahs on September 18. According to an Indian Express report, Namibia asked India to change its stance on Ivory trade ban against the Cheetahs. Since 1980s India has unequivocally voted against Ivory trade since it joined Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1976.
However, on November 22, India abstained from voting against the Ivory trade for the first time in decades. In 1989, Ivory trade was globally banned as CITES included African elephant in its Appendix I.
Gokhale filed an RTI seeking the copy of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed between India and Namibia to supply the 8 Cheetahs to India on PM Narendra Modi바카라s birthday.
The government however in response to the RTI denied him the copy of the MoU. Gokhale on December 5 tweeted the response of the government and said, In the RTI response, 바카라Modi govt refused to give a copy of the MoU stating that it could affect relations between India & Namibia. Now, why would a legally-signed MoU affect relations between 2 countries? Because they didn바카라t want us to know the 바카라conditions바카라 of the deal.바카라
