Kerala flight protest: Upset over report, Cong urges IndiGo to conduct fair probe

Kerala opposition leader V D Satheesan on Thursday urged the IndiGo management to conduct a fair probe into the incident aboard an IndiGo aircraft where two Youth Congress workers raised slogans against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who was travelling in the same flight.

Satheesan wrote a letter to IndiGo Associate Vice-President Varun Dwivedi taking exception to a report by the airlines’ Thiruvananthapuram manager to the local police.

IndiGo manager Vijith T V’s report to the police says, “After the flight landed and seat belt sign went off, three passengers stood up from the seat and rushed towards the CM, shouting slogans in their vernacular language. Upon seeing this, one of the passengers intervened. Thereafter, the CM deboarded the flight.”