IndiGo, A-I suspend comedian from flying

New Delhi, January 28

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra was suspended from flying by IndiGo and Air India on Tuesday after he allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami aboard a Mumbai-Lucknow plane. While IndiGo suspended Kamra from flying with it for a period of six months, Air India banned him until further notice.

Earlier, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri took notice of the incident and “advised” airlines in India to impose similar restrictions on Kamra, stating “offensive behaviour designed to create disturbance inside an aircraft is unacceptable.”

In a video clip posted by Kamra on his Twitter handle, he is heard as telling Goswami, “Viewers want to know if Arnab today is a coward or a nationalist. Arnab, this is for national interest….” Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also weighed in on the video and said, “The truth is that it was time someone gave him (Goswami) a taste of his own medicine”. — TNS