You cannot hide behind advisories: K.C. Venugopal slams Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia over high airfares
The Hindu
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia should take concrete action to control rising airfares rather than “hiding behind” advisories and quoting “random figures”, Congress leader K.C. Venugopal said on June 13, 2023
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia should take concrete action to control rising airfares rather than "hiding behind" advisories and quoting "random figures", Congress leader K.C. Venugopal said on Tuesday (June 13), firing a fresh salvo in the war of words between them.
Mr. Venugopal and Mr. Scindia have been sparring on Twitter since Sunday over the state of the aviation sector.
On Monday, the Minister hit back at the Congress general secretary (organisation), saying he was "cherry-picking" facts to attack the BJP government while forgetting the "step-brotherly" treatment meted out to civil aviation during the UPA rule.
Tagging Mr. Scindia's long Twitter post from Monday, Mr. Venugopal tweeted that this entire "flight price fiasco" is unravelling the "criminal extent" to which the Ministry of Civil Aviation "neglected" passenger welfare and the aviation sector.
"The more we dive deeper, the greater the mess we see. You have opened a Pandora’s box, @JM_Scindia ji," he said.
As per the Ministry's own affidavit in the Jet Airways insolvency case, airport slots are neither assets nor rights of the airline, but mere permissions granted on a 'use it or lose it' basis, Mr. Venugopal said.
"In 2020, then MoS Civil Aviation @HardeepSPuri ji, in response to a Parliamentary Question, stated that Jet Airways slots were being reallocated on a temporary basis. In this case as well, if GoFirst is not using its slots, these must be allocated to other airlines on a temporary basis. Why is the govt treating the GoFirst crisis differently?" he said.
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