Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flagged off the inaugural flight from Lucknow to Najaf in Iraq.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Singh that by introducing this flight from the state capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party government had fulfilled its responsibility.
“As a local Member of Parliament and a minister in the Union Cabinet, it is my responsibility to extend all possible facilities to the people of this state. I simply did my duty,” Singh said when a senior Muslim cleric, Maulana Hamiddul Hasan, said that this flight was a big favour to the Muslims.
