"No wonder SC thinks EC is stooge," Derek O'Brien tweeted today.
A day after Trinamool's Saket Gokhale was arrested again, after securing bail, in an alleged "fake tweet" case against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party leader Derek O'Brien has accused the Election Commission of India of "looking away" when a BJP Chief Minister and an actor turned BJP MP "spread communal bile during Gujarat election". "No wonder the Supreme Court thinks EC is stooge," he said.
Derek O'Brien accused the EC of "arresting" Saket Gokhale while on his way to the airport after securing bail in a case filed by the Gujarat police, but ignoring alleged hate speech by BJP leaders.
"BJP CM & an actor turned BJP MP spread communal bile during Gujarat election. What does EC do ? Look away
@SaketGokhale of @AITCofficial gets bail in one case filed by Gujarat Police & was on his way to airport.
What does EC do? Arrest him
No wonder SC thinks EC is stooge," he tweeted today.
BJP CM & an actor turned BJP MP spread communal bile during Gujarat election.
— Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) December 9, 2022
What does EC do ? Look away @SaketGokhale of @AITCofficial gets bail in one case filed by Gujarat Police & was on his way to airport.
What does EC do? Arrest him
No wonder SC thinks EC is stooge
Though the Trinamool Congress leader didn't name the BJP leaders, his targets seem to be Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma whose comments on "love jihad" and Aaftab Amin Poonawala, the man arrested for murdering his girlfriend in Delhi, had drawn accusations of communalising the issue ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections, and actor Paresh Rawal, who has been called for questioning by the Kolkata Police over his comments on Bengalis made at an election rally in Gujarat.
He had earlier alleged that Mr Gokhale was "being harassed by Gujarat Police".
