NEW DELHI:
Union aviation minister
Jyotiraditya
Scindia
on Wednesday responded to Congress MP
Shashi Tharoor
's critique of the handling of Delhi Airport's operations during the winter fog season. Scindia's series of tweets provided a comprehensive rebuttal, emphasizing the government's proactive measures and the technical complexities involved in aviation operations.
This after the
Congress leader
in a series of posts on X attacked the aviation ministry. Tharoor added different media reports in his posts to highlight the airport chaos.
Taking a dig at Tharoor, Scindia said his response "is for someone who is lost in his esoteric world of thesaurus that data mining of selective press articles from the internet qualifies as “research”. "
The Union aviation minister began by addressing Tharoor's concerns about the recent chaos at Delhi Airport, suggesting that Tharoor's reliance on selective press articles for information was inadequate. He then detailed the critical importance of runway maintenance for passenger safety, explaining that the maintenance was scheduled with the highest priority to be completed before the onset of the fog season. However, he acknowledged that unforeseen pollution incidents and the enforcement of GRAP-IV in Delhi led to a delay in the recarpeting of the runway, pushing its commissioning by a month.
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