Five MPs urge Speaker to act against AI over flight diversion

NEW DELHI: Five MPs, including Congress's general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal , on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over the diversion of the Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi flight they were on to Chennai and demanded action on alleged "bre-ach of privilege" by Air India. Venugopal and his party colleagues K Suresh, Adoor Prakash and Robert Bruce, along with CPI(M)'s K Radhakrishnan, also wrote to civil aviation minister Rammohan Naidu .

They have demanded a time-bound investigation and asked that its findings be made public. In their letter to Birla, the five MPs said they wanted to bring to his attention the matter involving a "grave breach of privilege " by Air India, arising from events on Flight AI 2455 on August 10.