BJP MLA felicitates cab driver who took poet-activist to Mumbai cops over CAA chat


Team Udayavani, Feb 8, 2020, 4:10 PM IST

Mumbai: Mumbai BJP chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Saturday felicitated a cab driver who took a passenger to police station after overhearing a phone chat about the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests.

The BJP MLA conferred “Alert Citizenship Award” on cab driver Rohit Gaur at the Santacruz police station.

Lodha also accused the passenger, poet-activist Bappadittya Sarkar, of hatching an “ant-national conspiracy” against the CAA.

“Rohit Gaur….who handed over the Uber taxi passenger devising anti-national conspiracy against the citizenship amendment act. Felicitated Rohit Gaur on behalf of the people of Mumbai calling him at the Santa Cruz Police Station and gave alert citizen award,” Lodha tweeted.

He also shared pictures showing him felicitating Gaur.

On Wednesday night, Sarkar was taken to police station by the driver of his Uber cab.

Sarkar, a resident of Jaipur who arrived in Mumbai on February 3 for a poetry reading session at the Kala Ghoda Festival, also took part in the ongoing anti-CAA-NRC protest at Nagpada in Mumbai.

On Wednesday night, while traveling by an Uber cab, he was discussing protests against the CAA with a friend on phone.

Overhearing the chat, the cab driver summoned policemen and urged them to arrest Sarkar. Sarkar was taken to a police station and allowed to leave after an inquiry.

The driver allegedly told Sarkar that he should be thankful that he took him to police station and not somewhere else.

Sarkar later commented that the driver’s aggressive behaviour and violent language reflected the atmosphere in the country.

The 23-year-old poet also said that despite the ordeal he faced, he was not going to lodge a complaint against the driver as it might ruin his career and life.

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