Raichur: Criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment on corruption in Karnataka under the Congress rule, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Mr Modi to come clean on alleged multiple crore increase in business fortunes of BJP president Amit Shah's son Jay Shah.

Addressing an election rally as part of his Janaashirwada Yatra in Raichur, Mr Gandhi said Mr. Modi has no moral right to speak about corruption by sitting aside BJP's chief ministerial candidate B.S. Yeddyurappa who went to jail in alleged corruption case.

“You (Mr Modi) speak about corruption in Karnataka but (you are) silent about huge increase in business fortunes of Amit Shah's son Jay Shah,” Mr. Gandhi said. Unlike previous BJP regime, the Siddaramaiah government is scam-free, he added.

Moreover, four (former) ministers went to jail and 11 resigned during previous BJP regime in Karnataka for various reasons including corruption, Mr Gandhi said.

Hitting out at Mr. Modi’s “lopsided development model,” Mr. Gandhi claimed while China provides jobs to 50,000 youth per day, the Modi govt provides jobs only to 450 youth per day.

Mr. Modi has no answers to huge unemployment and farmers distress problems, he alleged.

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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.