TMC leader arrested by Gujarat police over Morbi bridge collapse tweet, claims Derek O'Brien

A day after voting ended in Gujarat, the Trinamool Congress claimed that its spokesperson was arrested by the state police.

TMC leader Derek O'Brien claimed that his party colleague Saket Gokhale was arrested by Gujarat police at Jaipur airport in Rajasthan on 5 December 2022.

O'Brien tweeted, "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."

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"The police let him make that one two-minute phone call and then confiscated his phone and all his belongings," he added.

O'Brien said that it was a "cooked up case" regarding Gokhale's tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse. "All this cannot silence TMC and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level," he tweeted.