Alleging “political vendetta” by the BJP, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has claimed that its spokesperson Saket Gokhale has been arrested by Gujarat Police over a tweet in regards to the Morbi bridge collapse.

The occasion didn’t specify which tweet precisely, however the federal government’s fact-check unit had just lately pinpointed Mr Gokhale’s tweet by which he shared what regarded like newspaper clippings saying that “RTI revealed the PM’s visit to Morbi cost Rs 30 crore”.

“This claim is fake,” the Press Information Bureau (@PIBFactCheck) mentioned.

Quoting an RTI, It is being claimed in a tweet that PM’s go to to Morbi value ₹30 cr.#PIBFactCheck

▪️ This declare is #Fake.

▪️ No such RTI response has been given. pic.twitter.com/CEVgvWgGTv

— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 1, 2022

Saket Gokhale had taken a Monday night time flight from New Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan, from the place he was “picked up” by Gujarat Police, tweeted Derek O’Brien, a senior chief of Bengal’s ruling occasion.

TMC nationwide spokesperson @SaketGokhale arrested by Gujarat Police.

Saket took a 9pm flight from New Delhi to Jaipur on Mon. When he landed, Gujarat Police was on the airport in Rajasthan ready for him and picked him up. 1/3

— Derek O’Brien | ডেরেক ও’ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 6, 2022

“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,” Mr O’Brien additional mentioned.

He mentioned the case towards the RTI activist-turned-politician has been “cooked up by the Ahmedabad [police] cyber cell about Saket’s tweet on the Morbi bridge collapse”. He didn’t say which tweet.

In Gujarat’s Morbi city, a colonial-era suspension bridge collapsed on October 30, killing over 130 folks, simply 4 days after it was reopened upon renovation. The probe has pointed in the direction of failure of the municipal authorities because the renovation contractor allegedly didn’t observe the norms.

The Rajya Sabha member additional mentioned: “All this cannot silence All India Trinamool Congress and the Opposition. BJP taking political vendetta to another level.”

Neither the BJP nor the Gujarat authorities has reacted but.

News company PTI contacted Jaipur airport police in-charge Digpal Singh, who mentioned: “I have no information. Nobody informed us.”