Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad hits Air India staff: Why did the crew not restrain him?

I have just seen a photograph of Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad who has just informed all and sundry that he hit an Air India steward 25 times for insulting him. Looks like a skinny little lightweight.

It seems the lofty MP was placed in economy class though he had a business class seat. An upgrade was not possible because it was an all-economy flight. So much for service to the people. When he complained about this maltreatment (come on, guys, give him a break, he is an MP, a VIP, oh mighty One) he did what comes naturally to those bestowed with greater and grander body and soul. He took off his slipper and he whacked the steward 25 times.

This is utterly acceptable behaviour for those who believe they are God’s gift to mankind and we, the people, are pretty unfair that we should even question it. Instead, we should praise him for the insult he bore. After all, it is very insulting to men of such stature to sit with the great unwashed in a cattle car and even more insulting to be abused by being told by the steward that he would report the MP to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This, of course, seeing as how the Shiv Sena is a BJP ally, not as if the MP was a Congressman. Complaining to Modi ranks there with trolls talking dirty and no wonder the lordly member of the house felt justified in slapping a slipper 25 times.

Remember that Mithun Reddy fellow in Tirupathi who did much the same to an Air India official in 2015 for not allowing him and his family to board after they arrived late.

So, while I am totally on Gaikwad’s side and feel for him in a nation where some people are naturally and deservedly more equal than others and must be treated with vats of respect I am a little bit puzzled. This wimpy little man got in 25 whacks. That must have taken over a minute at a slap every two seconds. What the heck was the Air India steward doing? What the heck was the rest of the crew doing? These cabin crew walk off full flights if they have passed their flight and duty time by one minute. Yet, they all stood there and watched while this man took to his shoe so many times.

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Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad hits Air India staff: Why India needs a no-fly list

If a catalyst was needed to create a ‘No Fly’ list of unruly air passengers in India, Thursday's incident involving a VIP flyer hitting an airline staffer should provide enough impetus for it. According to a complaint filed by R Sukumar, Duty Manager of Air India, Shiv Sena MP Ravinder Gaikwad refused to get off a flight which had landed at Delhi from Pune at around 09:40 on Thursday morning. Sukumar said that when he asked the MP to disembark from the plane, since the flight had to leave for Goa and 115 passengers were waiting to get on to it, the MP became abusive. Gaikwad allegedly also had a problem with Sukumar speaking in English. Then the MP (by his own admission) started beating the Duty Manager. Sukumar has ended his complaint by stating “God save our country if this is the culture and behaviour of our MPs.”

Speaking to TV channels, Gaikwad did not once deny that he had assaulted an employee of Air India. He was also seen bragging about how he had hit the airline staffer 25 times. Gaikwad was also heard saying that he will file a complaint with the Civil Aviation Minister A Gajapathi Raju as well as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Neither Gaikwad nor Air India is a stranger to controversy involving flights and MPs. An airline veteran says there are quite a few instances of MPs delaying flights, demanding special treatment. But anyone physically assaulting an airline employee is still not a common occurrence. Perhaps Gaikwad has bitten off more than he can chew this time?
On its part, Air India first did what comes naturally to any 'sarkari' company in our country – it sought a report.

The report submitted by Deputy GM (Commercial), Harendra Singh, says that the MP demanded Air India’s CMD or another director level officer to come on board the aircraft and sort out his issue. This implies that he didn't want mere airport in-charges to address his grievances, he wanted topmost officer running Air India. Would the MP have made the same demands if he were travelling by a private airline, one wonders. But what exactly caused the MP to fly into a rage? The report by Harendra Singh says that the MP wanted to know why he was asked to fly economy class when he held a ticket for business class.
Representational image. Reuters

An Air India spokesperson says an FIR has been lodged in this incident, and added that Air India is “examining the creation of a no-fly list of unruly passengers.” Sources tell Firstpost that a second FIR has also been lodged by the airline, accusing the MP of delaying the flight. If a no-fly list is created after this unprecedented and boorish behaviour by an elected representative of the people, perhaps we will have to thank Gaikwad. Such a list would not only create some apprehension in the minds of people about what is and isn't acceptable behaviour in the skies, it would also arm airlines to better deal with nuisances.

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Yadav clan drama: Akhilesh-Shivpal stand-off is over privileges, not principles

The reason for the ongoing feud in the ruling family in Uttar Pradesh could, after all, be the authority to select party candidates for the 2017 Assembly election. This seemingly innocuous power is actually so strong that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is prepared to reinstate the two ministers dismissed a few days ago, restore departments to uncle and senior minister Shivpal Yadav and, if it comes to the crunch, even quit from the chief ministerial post.

Akhilesh Yadav admitted all this rather candidly while participating in a television programme in Lucknow on Friday – the fifth day of the stand-off between him and his uncle Shivpal Yadav. In response to a question whether Shivpal could be given back the departments taken away from him, Akhilesh replied that in this case he, too, would like to get back what he had lost. And he went on to add that he would like to retain the authority to give party tickets for the forthcoming election and was even ready to lay down his office to get this authority.

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Chikungunya in Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal can take a leaf out of Sri Lanka’s battle against Malaria

On visiting many of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Mohalla clinics in Delhi, some surrounded by stinking heaps of garbage next to clogged drains, it becomes instantly clear that a preventive approach to the city’s healthcare is missing. The recent outbreak of chikungunya and the 12 deaths caused by complications triggered due to the vector-borne disease in the capital, is reflective of the shortcoming in the healthcare policy adopted by the Delhi government.

The revolutionary project of opening free Mohalla clinics to provide primary treatment to residents of small neighbourhoods in the city is certainly a giant stride in curative healthcare. The term revolution owes to the real-life challenges faced in operating these clinics and the fact that they attempt to remove the economic disparity in healthcare by way of providing free basic medical care. All this in a city where out-of-pocket health expenditure is as high as 77 percent as per Delhi human Development Report 2013.

But a health policy opted by a government, be it central or state, is expected to address much more than just curative goals. The stakes are even higher when elections are won based on the assurance of providing universal modern healthcare facilities, as the AAP had done.

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Only cowards would target Mother Teresa: She's been dead for 20 years, let it go

What is some people's problem with Mother Teresa?

I truly don’t get it. If the Pope wants to sanctify her why are people like Justice Katju and British-based activist Aroup Chatterjee spewing so much venom and the media running with it without any evidence except conjecture that was a lot of no good.

Is it to get attention for themselves? There are worse people in the world and I don’t see what advantage there is in assaulting the reputation of a woman who has been dead for 20 years. Where were all these people when she was alive and the Mission of Charity was functioning under her aegis and she was holding lepers in her arms?

So she liked chocolates, ice cream and fun. Which is what? A series of sins?

Oh, she was using second hand syringes. Since I did not give her any money I have no idea how she harnessed her resources but would so many poor people keep coming to her for a little solace and comfort if she was such an evil person.


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Arvind Kejriwal sacks Sandeep Kumar: How AAP betrayed blessings and poll promises

India has a long list of politicians who lost their Cabinet berths after losing an election. But, AAP's Sandeep Kumar would go down in record books as the first minister to get kicked out of a ministry because of something that just rhymes with, er, election.

On Wednesday night, he was sacked by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal just before the media started playing tapes, of Kumar's alleged escapades in a house that looked like his hunting ground, on loop.

In a CD sent anonymously to media houses, Kumar, minister of women and child welfare, allegedly figures with two different women. In one of them — a nine-minute video — he is seen in an "objectionable" position with a woman, whom he later advises to meet him "only after 9 pm" and never in public. The CD also contained still pictures allegedly showing Kumar with another woman in varying degrees of proximity.

Allegedly, instead of helping women in need, a job mandated by his ministry, Kumar was helping himself to women to satiate his needs.


Making a virtue out of necessity, AAP claimed that it had set high standards of probity in public life by taking quick action against Kumar. "AAP is a party of ideals. AAP has a zero tolerance policy towards corruption, scandals," deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said. "Ministers found taking bribes were removed immediately as soon as it was found. Action will be taken swiftly against any member irrespective of status or position," he told the media.

Sisodia's hypocrisy would have sounded more comic had he not been competing with the sacked minister, a self-proclaimed patni-vrata aam aadmi.

In a speech that went viral last year, Kumar told his audience on International Women's Day (8 March) that he takes his wife's blessings almost every day before venturing out.

"Main roz subah inke pair choo kar ghar se nikalta hoon (I touch her feet before leaving the house every morning)," he said, bringing the packed auditorium at Delhi's secretariat down with a thunderous response.

He later told the The Indian Express about his blissful marital life and how he was grateful to his wife for being with him through thick and thin.

If the video is right, the minister was obviously fooling a lot of people at the same time, both in private and in public.

The only silver lining, if any, in Kejriwal's conduct is that he has been quick to act on complaints of impropriety. Unlike the BJP that first inducted Nihal Chand as a minister in the Union government in spite of the lawmaker facing allegations of rape and then continued to protect him despite public outrage and the Congress that has a history of protecting tainted politicians, Kejriwal has at least taken quick and decisive action.

But, the Delhi CM's penchant for alacrity in such matters has been deprived of its novelty and moral underpinnings because the AAP is now being routinely exposed as a party low on scruples that were promised by Kejriwal. "If politics is keechad (muck), we will have to get deep into it to clean it," Kejriwal had said, explaining the raison d'être of AAP. Ironically, his AAP now looks like keechad — a mini replica of Indian politics.

For a party that made such a song and dance of its selection process, owes its birth to an anti-corruption movement and public clamour for clean politics, it is indeed a shame that every few months the AAP gets into trouble because of legislators with gaping moral and ethical lacunae.

In October, Kejriwal had publicly sacked Asim Ahmed Khan, the then minister of food and environment for allegedly seeking bribes. Before that, after defending him publicly, Kejriwal had to sack law minister Jitendra Tomar for faking a degree.

Delhi has a sanctioned strength of seven ministers. Three bad apples in less than 18 months is indeed an alarming sample for Kejriwal's lot. Either his party is guilty of not performing the advertised due diligence or Kejriwal and his team have a problem judging people. Either way, these are signs that erode Kejriwal's base.

Like patni-vrata Kumar, the AAP has betrayed people's faith and blessings.


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