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Kashmir Times. Dated: 3/4/2015 9:56:53 PM
Dear Editor
Congress Parliamentarian Renuka Chaudhary has become a habitual and repeating offender for causing flight-delays when Air India’s Chicago-Delhi-Hyderabad flight AI-126 scheduled to take off at 1900 hours on Friday 20th February 2015 was delayed by 45 minutes at Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi) because Renuka Chaudhary was allegedly busy in shopping at the airport. Similar such incident took place on Friday 28th March 2008 when she was Union Minister of state for Women & Child Development causing JetLite Airways flight number S2/117 from New Delhi to Goa scheduled to take off at 1315 hours left at 1440 hours because of Renuka Chaudhary boarding late. Air India should in larger public interest take up the matter with Rajya Sabha Secretariat for such attitude of its member apart from taking corrective measures to prevent flight-delays because of erring politicians.
Incident recalls Pakistani air-travellers when they forced out such late-reaching politicians including Pakistan’s former interior minister Rehman Malik and a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Dr Ramesh Vankwani were forced to get out of the plane on PIA flight-number PK-370 because these leaders were responsible for flight-delay. Time has come that Indians should also behave with erring Indian politicians in similar manner.
—Madhu Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba Delhi.