Indian Commercial Pilot’s Association demands unconditional apology from Gaikwad

In 2015, Shiv Sena activists doused the head of an Indian think-tank in black ink to protest against his support for the launch of a book by a former Pakistani foreign minister. You are a democratic leader, we have elected you. Please don’t do anything silly because of a stupid man’. He will not come out, he was not talking in the proper way.

While the government is working on a way to check “undesirable flight behaviour”, the video has surfaced where Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad is being seen abusing and hitting an Air India employee Shivkumar.

Gaikwad’s Shiv Sena party is known for its extremist views and is accused of promoting ethnic and religious intolerance.

As per Schedule VI of Aircraft Rules, 1937 such an offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or with fine not exceeding Rs 5 lakh. He also said the MP “was made to sit in economy class, despite booking a business seat” and that it is yet to be determined who initiated the violence.

June 2015: Expelled Rashtriya Janata Dal MP from Bihar, Pappu Yadav, allegedly misbehaved with a Jet Airways airhostess on a flight from Patna after she asked the lawmaker not to throw the leftover food in the aisle. The MP attacked the official for denying him from travelling business class on Delhi bound flight in Indira Gandhi International airport two days ago.

Ashok Ganapathi Raju, the civil aviation minister, told reporters at parliament on Thursday: “No citizen will behave like this”.

“I first asked him to lower his voice as his blood pressure would shoot up”.

What everyone probably knows by now, Gaikwad may hit people, but he does not lie.

“Maine sandal se pachhis maara, (I rained 25 blows on him with my slipper)”, he bragged to the media later.

Air India said it has also written to the Shiv Sena, communicating the decision, to cancel the return ticket of the MLA, because our employees are agitated. “We are transferring the case to Crime Branch for thorough probe”, Delhi Police spokesperson Dependra Pathak said.

He boastfully claimed he held up the plane for “full one hour” and did not allow the maintenance staff to clean the aircraft. “Kaahe ka pashchataap (what is there to repent?)”, he said.