UPDATED: February 11, 2021 14:41 IST
Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari was informed that his flight has no permission to fly. (File photo: PTI)
Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari was denied an official plane on Thursday. Koshyari was supposed to fly to Mussoorie in Uttarakhand for a function at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. However, when the governor was about to board the plane, he was informed that his flight does not have permission to fly.
As per an official statement from the governor s office, Koshyari is scheduled to preside over an official programme the Valedictory Function of the 122nd Induction Training Programme of IAS officers at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie, Uttarakhand on Friday.
Mumbai, February 11
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was scheduled to travel by a state government aircraft to Dehradun in Uttarakhand on Thursday, but the permission to use the plane was not granted even as the Governor had boarded the aircraft, sources said.
The Governor later took a commercial flight to travel to Dehradun, a statement from the Raj Bhavan said.
This comes amid uneasy ties between the state’s Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government and the governor, with both the sides have being critical of each other in the past.
The Raj Bhavan statement said the Governor’s Secretariat had written to the government authorities seeking permission for the use of aircraft “well in advance” on February 2.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyariwas denied permission to use a state government aircraft to travel to Dehradun on Thursday, triggering a row and inviting a strong criticism from the opposition BJP which sought an apology over the incident. Koshyariwas scheduled to travel by a state government aircraft to Dehradun and on getting on-board, the governor was informed that permission for use of the plane had not been received, a statement from the Raj Bhavan said. The governor later took a commercial flight from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) to travel to the capital of his home state of Uttarakhand, it said.
New Delhi/Mumbai, Feb 11 : Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari had given a written request to the state government for availing the state aircraft
Maha Guv deboarded from state plane; CMO blames Raj Bhavan
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Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, Feb 11 : In a piquant situation, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was forced to deboard from a state government aircraft at Mumbai Airport as he planned to fly to Dehradun and then go to Mussoorie for an official function, officials said here on Thursday.
Even as a massive political slugfest erupted between the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray s office broke its silence on Thursday evening and pointed fingers at the Raj Bhavan.