Srinagar passengers getting shafted by airlines, alleges Omar as flights cancelled due to snowfall
Srinagar, Feb 23: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Wednesday alleged that air passengers to Srinagar were getting "shafted" by airlines after all the day's flights to and from Kashmir were cancelled due to snowfall, and people "told to rebook" at higher prices.
However, airport authorities said the options for refund and rescheduling at no extra cost for all the flights cancelled on Wednesday has been offered by all airlines.
"This is how passengers to Srinagar are getting shafted by airlines - all flights got cancelled today & people who had paid ?3000/4000 for their seats are told to rebook. Suddenly the same flights are being quoted at ?12,000/?14,000. Day light robbery & no government intervenes," Abdullah tweeted.
All 41 flights to and from the Srinagar airport were cancelled due to bad weather in the wake of heavy snowfall.
However, responding to Abdullah's tweet, the airport authorities said the options for refund and rescheduling "at no extra cost" for all the flights cancelled has been offered by all airlines.
The affected passengers may please contact the respective airlines call centre for refund or rescheduling, the Srinagar airport said on its official Twitter handle.
This is how passengers to Srinagar are getting shafted by airlines - all flights got cancelled today & people who had paid ₹3000/4000 for their seats are told to rebook. Suddenly the same flights are being quoted at ₹12,000/₹14,000. Day light robbery & no government intervenes
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) February 23, 2022
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
