
Anantapur MP from Telugu Desam Party, JC Diwakar Reddy was slammed and criticised by the entire India after watching his unruly behaviour with the IndiGo Airlines staff, recently. He was banned by all the domestic airlines. The repercussion of the incident was such that the MP decided to enjoy a week-long tour to Paris by flying on an international airline.
Even in Shiv Sena’s Ravindra Gaikwad incident, MP from Maharashtra had the audacity to say that he was not wrong, even when there were CCTV footages doing the rounds in the social media. In different incidents, but both MPs Diwakar and Gaikwad were seen manhandling the IndiGo staff.
These people still remain as the people’s representatives and face Assembly and people without even an ounce of guilt. Is it their ideology giving them the strength, or the (money, political power, manpower) strength which helps them to be this rude?
To the surprise of many people, Gaikwad was supported by his colleagues in the Shiv Sena. But for Diwakar Reddy, looks like he had a silent support, else it was not possible for him to fly to Paris, at such a time when all domestic airlines had slapped a ban on him.
It was said that he was helped by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Ganapathy Babu to board the Paris flight following the tiff with IndiGo and ban by domestic airlines.
Minister Babu had announced that there would be a probe into the matter. But it did not take him long to change his stand and say, "There is no need for a probe. What are you going to probe. The CCTV cameras said it... There are no separate regulations for different classes of people. The safety regulations are the same for all classes including me," had reported PTI.
It is said that the six-time MLA has not been charged with any crime. But he was reportedly found to be unruly with the Gannavaram Airport staff at Vijayawada in October. This tiff came to an end as CM Chandrababu Naidu intervened and put him on the following flight.
However, his brother Prabhakar Reddy runs Diwakar Travels, which is the family business. He is also said to be unpredictable (especially in terms of his reacting to situations). A bus belonging to Diwakar Travels met with an accident, killing 11 people including the driver. A case was booked against the dead driver, and no cases were filed against Diwakar Travels. In another incident, in October 2013, multi-axle Volvo bus of the same travels had caught fire at Mahbubnagar, killing 45.
To add to this history, Prabhakar’s son-in-law Deepak Reddy is behind bars in a land grab case. Deepak too is a TDP MLC.
Thus, it looks like he has many people to support him and back him and say he was not wrong at all!