IndiGo, Air India bar TDP MP Reddy from their flights after he created ruckus

New Delhi/Visakhapatnam, June 15: IndiGo and Air India on Thursday barred Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) member of Parliament J.C. Diwakar Reddy from flying on their flights after his alleged unruly behaviour.

The development comes hours after the TDP MP allegedly created a ruckus at the Visakhapatnam airport after he was denied a boarding pass for reporting late for an IndiGo flight to Hyderabad.

Reddy, Lok Sabha member from Anantapur, was said to have damaged a printer and misbehaved with IndiGo airline staff.

The MP had reported at the check-in counter 28 minutes before the scheduled departure



of the flight against the regulation of 45 minutes. As the airline staff told him they cannot issue him a boarding pass, he got angry and entered into a heated argument with them.

Closed-circuit television footage aired on some television channels showed the TDP leader shouting at the airline staff as some security personnel tried to control him.

Interestingly, the MP managed to board the flight but it was not clear who intervened to get him the boarding pass.

Civil Aviation Minister and TDP leader Ashok Gajapathy Raju, who was present at the airport, claimed Reddy had reached the airport on time.