{"id":29175,"date":"2023-02-14T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=29175"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:27:23","slug":"varanasi-airport-denies-the-claim-that-it-refused-rahuls-plane-permission-to-land-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/varanasi-airport-denies-the-claim-that-it-refused-rahuls-plane-permission-to-land-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Varanasi airport denies the claim that it refused Rahul&#8217;s plane permission to land | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Following allegations made by the Congress party that Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s jet had been refused permission to land at Varanasi&#8217;s Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport on Monday, the Varanasi airport authorities have dismissed the claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-varanasi-airport\">Varanasi Airport<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ajay Rai, the head of the Congress, claimed that President Droupadi Murmu&#8217;s visit was used as an &#8220;excuse&#8221; by airport officials who refused to grant clearance due to pressure. He asserted that despite being &#8220;deliberately&#8221; denied permission to do so, Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s jet was due to arrive at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lal_Bahadur_Shastri_Airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Varanasi Airport<\/a><\/strong> on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29176\" width=\"1034\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/airport.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/airport-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1034px) 100vw, 1034px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Varanasi Airport | Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The charter plane company that was transporting Rahul Gandhi canceled the flight on their own, the Varanasi airport claimed in response to the accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Varanasi airport refutes allegations that permission was not granted for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi\u2019s jet to land. Airport says the charter jet company carrying Rahul Gandhi cancelled the flight it themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kzDfbvfhty\">https:\/\/t.co\/kzDfbvfhty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9YTY44CK7O\">pic.twitter.com\/9YTY44CK7O<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI UP\/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/1625395163928629248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-airports-authority-of-india\">Airports Authority of India<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>The airport responded to a tweet with the following: &#8220;In an email sent to the Airports Authority of India(AAI)Varanasi Airport at 21:16 on February 13, 2013, M\/s AR Airways canceled the scheduled flight.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4863_19_6_2022_18_24_34_1_APPROACHLIGHTINGSYSTEM_1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also, read               <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/unaware-of-her-pregnancy-a-klm-passenger-gives-birth-in-the-plane-bathroom-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unaware of her pregnancy, a KLM passenger gives birth in the plane bathroom | Exclusive<\/a>                    <\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Passenger Offloaded From American Airlines Delhi- New York Flight, Crew Accused Of Disobeying | Exclusive            <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/26\/jetblue-flight-evacuated-at-new-yorks-jfk-airport-due-to-a-smoking-laptop-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JetBlue flight evacuated at New York\u2019s JFK Airport due to a smoking laptop | Exclusive<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that the operator canceled the flight, kindly amend what you said.&#8221; As per Rai, &#8220;Rahul Gandhi was supposed to come here and travel on to Prayagraj, but due to government pressure, the airport authorities refused to let his flight land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-prime-minister-narendra-modi\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>They said there was significant aircraft activity and that the authorities purposely withheld their approval &#8220;Asserted Rai. &#8220;Since Rahul Gandhi led the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narendramodi.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prime Minister<\/a><\/strong> of the country has been concerned. He is now bothered by them &#8220;He continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rai claimed that as he and other party leaders were waiting to see their leader at the airport, his plane was denied permission to land &#8220;at the last minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22476\" width=\"1036\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1.webp 770w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1-600x337.webp 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Modi_file_0_1200x768_1_1200x768-1-750x422.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8221; According to PTI, Gandhi later made his way back to the capital. To pray at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple today, the Congress MP was supposed to arrive in Varanasi on Monday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stay updated with Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varanasi airport denies the claim that it refused Rahul&#8217;s plane permission to land | Exclusive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[152,392,104,79,2030,393,81,4224],"class_list":{"0":"post-29175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airlines-news","10":"tag-airport","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-aviation-a2z-news","13":"tag-aviation-news","14":"tag-latest-aviation-news","15":"tag-varanasi-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29177,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175\/revisions\/29177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}