Arrest Arnab for ‘treason’, demands Maha Congress

Mumbai, Jan 22 : The Maharashtra Congress on Friday held protests in all the districts and different cities demanding the arrest of Republic TV Editor in Chief Arnab Goswami for “treason” under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, party leaders said here.
At various places in the state, a large number of Congress activists protested by hurling stones and shoes at photos of Goswami, garlanding his portraits with chappals, and raising slogans against him and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Led by state Congress President and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat, several ministers, legislators, state and district party leaders joined the agitations across all the 36 districts of Maharashtra.
Those whotook part in the protests included Dheeraj Deshmukh, Praniti Shinde, Suresh Warpudkar, Sulabha Khodke, Vikas Thakre, Hishab Usmani, Sharad Aher, Prahlad Chavan, Prakash Deotale, Vijay Bhosale, Sandeep Patil and Shyam Saner, among others.
Terming the recent revelations of WhatsApp chats between Goswami and ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta as “extremely serious and violative of the OSA, 1923”, Thorat said these conversations amount to ‘treason’ for which the Republic TV chief must be immediately arrested.
He said that the chats between the two had made some serious revelations related to national security and pertaining to the retaliatory surgical strike by India in Balakot, Pakistan,in February 2019.