Congress Blames Modi Government for IndiGo Flight Meltdown, Demands Minister’s Accountability
Opposition slams govt for creating IndiGo duopoly and safety chaos.
The Congress on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the Union Government over the unprecedented IndiGo flight cancellation crisis, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of delivering “cease of air travel” instead of the promised “ease of air travel” and demanding that Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu accept direct responsibility for the nationwide meltdown affecting lakhs of passengers.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress MP Sasikanth Senthil declared that the ongoing paralysis of India’s largest airline was not an operational accident but the inevitable outcome of the BJP’s deliberate policy to crush competition and manufacture a virtual duopoly in the aviation sector, systematically favouring select corporate groups at the expense of public interest and safety.
Senthil pointed to the government’s controversial decision to first notify revised Flight Duty Time Limitation rules in January 2024, partially implement them in July 2025, and then abruptly withdraw the safeguards in the middle of the current crisis as proof of criminal negligence that has directly endangered passenger lives by allowing pilot fatigue to spiral out of control.
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The Congress leader alleged that the pattern of regulatory leniency toward IndiGo, combined with massive electoral bond contributions from the airline’s parent InterGlobe group, exposed a deeper nexus of crony capitalism that has transformed critical national infrastructure sectors—including aviation, ports, and telecom—into private fiefdoms of government-favoured conglomerates.
As over 400 additional flights were cancelled on Saturday alone, pushing the five-day disruption tally well beyond 1,500, Senthil demanded immediate answers on why the DGCA repeatedly failed to enforce its own safety regulations against IndiGo, whether compliance notices were deliberately withheld, and whether the government would finally hold both the airline and the minister accountable for turning air travel into a national nightmare.
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