Telangana News

Trinamool Congress party officials alleged in the Parliament today that Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee’s life is in danger. The allegation was made after the commercial plane that she travelled, took an emergency landing.

Reportedly, the IndiGo flight from Patna to Kolkata was short of fuel, but was made to circle the airport for about 30 minutes, as it waited in line for clearance to land. 

"The plane was about to crash... we want to bring to notice that life of Mamata Banerjee is in danger," said Sudip Bandyopadhyay from Ms Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.

According to the sources, Ms Mamatha’s flight was an hour late to take off from Patna, which resulted in her plane stay back of a row of planes waiting to land. This made the pilot spend a half an hour hovering above the Kolkata airport. But her party says that given that the Chief Minister was on the IndiGo flight, it should have been prioritized.

For the last few weeks, Ms Banerjee continued fighting against the demonetization. She even conducted rallies against it in Lucknow and Patna, from where she flew back to Kolkata yesterday. So the chaos in the airport is being treated as an attemptive murder by the opposition parties.

"Is there more to this than meets the eye?" asked Derek O'Brien, also of the Trinamool. There is a school of thought that this is a conspiracy," he said in the Rajya Sabha.

On the other side, an inquiry has been ordered by the Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, to determine why 3 planes, including Ms Banerjee's, did not have as much fuel as required to be able to withstand a delay in landing.