‘BJP VIP Brats’: Opposition reacts after reports claim Surya opened IndiGo flight exit door While the IndiGo airline declined to comment about the identity of the passenger, it said “the passenger immediately apologized for the action”.
In a statement on Tuesday, IndiGo said a passenger travelling on flight 6E 7339 from Chennai to Tiruchirapalli on December 10 last year accidentally opened the emergency exit during the boarding process.
The airline said the passenger opened the emergenc’BJP VIP Brats’: Opposition reacts after reports claim Surya opened IndiGo flight exit door y exit of the IndiGo plane after boarding at Chennai airport and the aircraft, which was on the ground, was subject to mandatory engineering checks before it flew to Tiruchirapalli.
Media reports quoted what they called eyewitnesses as saying that 32-year-old Bengaluru South MP Surya was the passenger who opened the emergency gate. HT could not independently verify the authenticity of the reports, which sparked a massive political row.
The Congress has questioned why the government hid the incident for so long. Neither Surya nor his office has reacted to the allegations so far.
Another Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi alleges that it “seems someone is too eager to achieve big in political life”. “It doesn’t happen this way. Success in politics is a factor of humility and perseverance, not volatility and arrogance,” Singhvi tweeted.
According to Patil, the officers accosted him while he was on his way home. They threatened and harassed in their attempts to extort a bribe. Narrating the incident through a series of Tweets, Patil also alleged that the officers told him that they stood to get a reward of Rs 15,000 each if they turned him in for drug abuse. Patil claimed that the officers extorted Rs 2,500 from him.
