Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has written to the management of Indigo Airlines complaining that the report submitted by the airport manager of the airlines to the local police station on the protest raised by two Youth Congress activists against the Chief Minister inside an aircraft in Thiruvananthapuram is “fake, frivolous and conspicuous”.
In his letter to Indigo Associate Vice President Varun Dwivedi, Mr. Satheesan said that the report given by the airport manager of Indigo Airlines was in stark contrast to the statements given by passengers on the aircraft as well as Left Democratic Front convener E.P. Jayarajan, who was accompanying the Chief Minister at the time and was a witness to the incident.
Mr. Satheesan pointed out that Mr. Jayarajan had said during an interview given to a leading news channel that the protesters had raised slogans against the Chief Minister after he had alighted the aircraft. In addition, Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had categorically stated that the said incident took place after the Chief Minister had de-boarded the aircraft. Yet, the report given by the Indigo airport manager ”is learned to have alleged that the protesters attacked the Chief Minister,” the letter written by Mr. Satheesan said.
