The Congress has used the IndiGo flight ban on Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener E. P. Jayarajan to underscore its case that the CPI(M) veteran had wilfully assaulted two Youth Congress workers demonstrating “peacefully” inside an aircraft that landed in Thiruvananthapuram from Kannur with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on board on June 13.
CPI(M) State secretariat has strongly criticised the airline. It called the airline's action ill-thought and arbitrary.
Mr. Jayarajan had pre-empted a bid on the Chief Minister’s life. It asked IndiGo to reexamine the facts and revoke the three-week travel embargo.