Rahul Gandhi to visit Dakshina Kannada in March first week
Mangaluru: KPCC General Secretary UB Venkatesh informed that the Congress President Rahul Gandhi would visit Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in the first week of March.
Addressing media persons at Congress Bhavan here on Wednesday, UB Venkatesh informed that Rahul Gandhi during his four days tour would visit all the eight constituencies in Dakshina Kannada via bus with senior leaders of the party to address public meetings.
"Rahul Gandhi will be traveling in a special bus throughout the district with KPCC leaders, MLAs, and ministers from the state," Venkatesh added.
He also said that the Congress had already completed a major part of the election campaign work. "During the last four and half years tenure, the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has given corruption-free administration. Hence Congress will win in all the eight constituencies in Dakshina Kannada", he added.
A meeting for candidate selection on Feb 17
The state government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has worked for the benefits of all the people without seeing minority and majority. The party will move forward by taking minorities along with them. On February 17, candidates from Dakshina Kannada districts for the upcoming elections will be finalized.
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Indigo flights chaos: SCR to run special trains to clear passenger rush
Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.
The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.
A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.
Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.
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Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.
The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.
“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.
“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.
On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.
