Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Friday rubbished charges of delaying a Delhi-Leh Air India flight last month and said it was ‘false news’.<\/p>\n
“That issue is over. It was all false news. Nobody was de-boarded because of me. So, it was wrong news. I have seen the video. Instead, the Air India authority was explaining me that it was not my fault and the whole confusion was because of a leading news channel which was running incorrect news,” he told the media here.<\/p>\n
Rijiju, who had last week gone to Leh by a Border Security Force (BSF) helicopter to attend the Sindhu Darshan function, reportedly caused the delay of an Air India flight and made three passengers de-board the flight.<\/p>\n
Rijiju was accompanied by Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and they were to fly to Delhi from Leh on June 24, when the reported incident took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Friday rubbished charges of delaying a Delhi-Leh Air India flight last month and said it was ‘false news’. “That issue is over. It was all false news. Nobody was de-boarded because of me. So, it was wrong news. I have seen the video. Instead, the Air India authority was explaining me that it was not my fault and the whole confusion was because of a leading news channel which was running incorrect news,” he told the media here. Rijiju, who had last week gone to Leh by a Border Security Force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}