Saket Gokhale

Saket Gokhale is an Indian RTI activist and politician, current spokesperson of Trinamool Congress.[1] He joined TMC in 2021.[2] He had also worked as a correspondent at the Financial Times, and at the Hindustan Times. Now he is the member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal.[2]

Saket Gokhale
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Assumed office
18 July 2023
Preceded byLuizinho Faleiro
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Known forRTI Activism

In December 2022, he was arrested over a tweet for posting alleged misinformation about 2022 Morbi bridge collapse.[3][4] After getting bail from a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad, he was re-arrested over the same tweet in a matter of few hours.[5] On 10 December, he was freed on bail.[6] In January 2023, Gokhale was arrested again by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) with allegations of money laundering.[7]

References
  1. "Rise of Saket Gokhale amid hiccups: RTI activist to TMC spokesperson to its Rajya Sabha new face". The Indian Express. 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  2. "RTI activist Saket Gokhale joins Trinamool Congress". The Indian Express. 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  3. "TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale arrested over tweet on Morbi bridge". Hindustan Times. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  4. "'Very bad... arrested because he tweeted against PM': Mamata backs Saket Gokhale". Hindustan Times. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  5. "Saket Gokhale Arrest News: TMC's Saket Gokhale freed on bail, rearrested in Ahmedabad - Ahmedabad News". The Times of India. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  6. https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/bail-for-saket-gokhale-after-second-arrest/cid/1903027
  7. "ED to court: TMC's Saket Gokhale used crowd fund on wining-dining, stock trading". The Indian Express. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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