Karnataka Cong MLA H Y Meti no more, CM Siddaramaiah expresses grief
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA from Bagalkote H Y Meti died at a private hospital here on Tuesday, party and hospital sources said.
He was 79 and was undergoing treatment for breathing issues and other age-related ailments, they said.
Meti, who was chairman for Bagalkote Urban Development Authority, is survived by two sons and two daughters.
They said his mortal remains will be taken to Bagalkote in the evening and last rites are likely to be performed on Wednesday afternoon.
Initially, Meti represented Guledgudda Assembly constituency in 1989, 1994 and 2004 as a Janata Dal member.
After getting elected in 1994, he served as the Forest Minister. He was also elected as MP from Bagalkote in 1996.
After delimitation of constituencies, he had contested in 2008 from Bagalkote on a Congress ticket, but lost.
He won in 2013 and served as Excise Minister in the then Siddaramiah-led Congress government, but lost in 2018.
He was considered to be among the close associates of Chief Minister Siddaramiah.
Siddaramaiah visited the hospital to pay his last respects to Meti.
Expressing grief over Meti's death, the CM said, "I had visited the hospital last Thursday and inquired about his health. I was hopeful that he would recover and join us again. Both my hopes and wishes have been dashed."
"Meti, who was in public life for a long time, was a politician who was pro-people and only concerned about the development of the constituency. The society has become poorer with his demise," he posted on 'X'.
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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.
