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Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led authorities astatine the Centre for failing to support the interests of passengers pursuing the bid of lapses that led to monolithic cancellations of flights by Indigo, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said connected Monday (December 8, 2025) that the full situation that arose from the “deadlock” led to a “disastrous” situation.
“I person ne'er witnessed specified a wholly stagnated situation. It is simply a disaster, and the Government of India should person planned decently earlier issuing instructions. How tin you harass radical similar this?,” the Chief Minister told media persons.
Contingency plan
Ms. Banerjee besides questioned the rationale of making specified a determination without an alternate program for rider services. The new Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) resulted successful cancellations of hundreds of flights implicit the past fewer days.
“This determination could person been implemented aft 15-20 days, truthful alternate arrangements could person been made. But the caller rules were implemented without immoderate specified plan,” Ms. Banerjee said, blaming the BJP-led cardinal authorities for the suffering caused to people.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson said that she volition inquire the Centre to get astatine slightest fractional the flights operational.
“Make immoderate different arrangements for the rest. I don’t cognize what they [the Centre] are doing. They person nary involvement successful the country. The BJP authorities thinks lone astir the elections. Their involvement is successful retaining power of EVMs, the Election Commission, and [central] institutions. They are not reasoning astir people. That is their main problem,” she said.
Ms. Banerjee said that since she is acrophobic astir communal people, she is keeping an oculus connected the situation.
SIR to stall development
Later successful the day, astatine an administrative gathering successful Cooch Behar district, Ms. Banerjee alleged that the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was “deliberately timed” to stall improvement projects successful the state.
“I cognize determination is immense unit connected the booth-level officers (BLOs), sub-divisional officers (SDOs) and booth-level agents (BLAs). But, some improvement projects and the SIR person to continue,” the Chief Minister said. She urged officials not to disregard improvement enactment owed to the SIR.
The West Bengal authorities has announced compensation to BLOs and communal radical who died owed to accent induced by the SIR.
