Scindia hurls ‘arm-chair critic’ jibe as Shashi Tharoor slams govt for Delhi airport ‘chaos’
Shashi Tharoor questioned the India government's preparedness to ensure that airlines have sufficiently trained pilots to land planes on CAT III-B compliant runways at Delhi airport that enable continuance of flight operations even during visibility as low as 50 metres due to fog conditions. This comes as several flights were delayed or cancelled in Delhi Airport, making passengers wait for long hours amid the severe cold wave conditions that gripped north India.
To Tharoor's allegations, union minister for civil aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia posted a series of tweets hitting out at the Congress MP. Scindia said, “It is for someone who is lost in his esoteric world of thesaurus that data mining of selective press articles from the internet qualifies as research".
Shashi Tharoor had in his tweet pointed out the ordeal of passengers amid flight delays for up to 12 hours, leading them to eat meals on the tarmac, in the background of the “sorry state of affairs of India's aviation sector". Citing several media reports, Tharoor criticised the Union aviation ministry and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for not being able to upgrade the CAT III-B to the CAT III-C category, which would allow pilots to land flights even at zero visibility.
He also targeted the government for failing to ensure pilots flying to Delhi were trained to land on CAT III-B runways. Calling Shashi Tharoor an “arm-chair critic", Jyotiraditya Scindia posted a series of tweets, the BJP MP called “actual facts".
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