New Delhi: Congress leader Pawan Khera was arrested by Assam police at the Delhi Airport on Thursday after he was deplaned from a Delhi-Raipur Indigo flight by authorities. A case has been registered against Congress leader Khera at Haflong Police Station in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. A team of Assam police personnel arrived in Delhi to take remand of Khera on Thursday, reports said.
Nearly 50 Congress leaders launched a rare protest on the tarmac, refusing to let the flight leave. Pawan Khera, a senior Congress spokesperson, was forced to exit the IndiGo flight. He was flying with a large group of Congress leaders to Raipur for a meeting of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
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IndiGo Airline said: “A passenger was deplaned by the police at the Delhi Airport from Raipur-bound flight 6E 204. Some other passengers have also decided to deboard on their own accord. We are following the advice of the concerned authorities. The flight is delayed as of now and we regret the inconvenience caused to other passengers.”
Khera said he was first told that there was trouble with his baggage. “I was told that there is an issue with my baggage, though I only had hand baggage. They told me you can’t fly. Then they said the DCP (Deputy Commissioner of Police) will meet you. I have been waiting for a long time. There is no sign of law and order,” he said.
The BJP has demanded Khera’s arrest over allegations that he insulted Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An FIR was filed after a BJP leader filed a police complaint.
At a recent press conference, Khera flubbed PM Modi’s name while demanding a joint parliamentary probe into the Adani-Hindenburg row. “If Narasimha Rao could form a JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee), if Atal Bihari Vajpayee could form a JPC, then what problem does Narendra Gautam Das…sorry Damodardas…Modi have?” he said, appearing to confirm the middle name with a colleague.
The BJP insists that Mr Khera’s fumble was deliberate.
“Make no mistake, pathetic remarks by courtier Pawan Khera on PM’s father have blessings of the top levels of Congress, which is full of entitlement and disdain against a person of humble origins being PM. India will not forget or forgive these horrible remarks of Congressmen,” Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said.
