Thiruvananthapuram ∙ LDF convener EP Jayarajan has been banned from traveling in or out of the country by IndiGo flights for three weeks. The action was taken for assaulting Youth Congress workers who protested against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the plane.
Youth Congress activists RK Naveen Kumar and PP Farseen Majeed, who raised slogans on the plane, were banned from traveling for two weeks. Their undisciplined behavior is a Level 1 offense under the Civil Aviation Requirements Order, 2017. Jayarajan was banned for three weeks because of the more serious offense of assaulting passengers.
They don’t understand who I am: Jayarajan
Jayarajan, who strongly criticized the IndiGo ban, said that neither he nor his family would ever board IndiGo flights again. When he pointed out that there was only IndiGo flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Kannur, he said that he would not board their flights even if he walked. Canceled the ticket booked yesterday and left for Kannur by evening train.
‘The chief minister is a Z category security person due to the threat of terrorists. IndiGo has taken illegal action by giving tickets to criminal Congressmen on the flight he was traveling on.
I was standing in the aisle of the plane when the 3 accused persons, including in the assassination cases, shouted slogans at the Chief Minister and jumped down, so they could not reach him. In fact, I avoided the stigma that the Indigo Company would have had due to its failure. If Indigo was a gentlemen’s company, I would have been awarded. They don’t understand who I am. Didn’t realize this is such a low quality company. A company without standards’ – Jayarajan said.
By the time Jayarajan left for Kannur by train, his reaction was already discussed in the social media. Asked about the social media banter that Indigo would collapse with Jayarajan’s boycott, Jayarajan’s response was: ‘Many people hearing this will voluntarily boycott IndiGo.
Sometimes the company will fail, don’t pretend it didn’t. Anyway, I don’t want to pay any of my money to such a company. The ban they imposed for three weeks I imposed against them in full’.
Even if you walk, you will not board the Indigo; Sometimes the company itself collapses; If I had dignity, I would have received the award
EP Jayarajan
CPM in protest
CPM says the ban imposed on EP Jayarajan is objectionable and should be reconsidered. The CPM Secretariat also alleged that the action was taken without checking the facts.
English Summary: EP Jayarajan’s Indigo travel ban row