Pragya in spat with SpiceJet passengers, video goes viral

New Delhi, December 23

Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur is in the news again for the wrong reason. A video has now emerged showing irate passengers of SpiceJet having an altercation with her.

In the video, a passenger can be heard telling Thakur that she is a representative of the people and her job is not to trouble the people.

“I have told them (aircraft crew), show me your rule book. If it says I can sit here, then I will sit or else I won’t,” Pragya told the passengers. A fellow traveller replies: “So ma’am, if they are not able to show the rulebook…you are a representative of the people, your job is not to trouble us, you can take the next flight and come.”

“Isme first class nahin hai, meri suvidha nahin hai….”
“Aapka right nahin hai first class” “Mera right hai first class”
Pragya Thakur in conversation with a passenger after holding up the flight over seat allocation.pic.twitter.com/89ajV82OLe

— SamSays (@samjawed65) December 23, 2019

Pragya then retorts saying if she is going without facilities in a non-first class seat, there must be a reason for that, to which the passenger says that first-class is not her right.

The passenger further told the controversial MP that being a political leader, she should own up the responsibility when people are troubled.

“You should have the moral compass that if one person is troubled because of you…you should own up, because you are a leader. You are not ashamed that you have held around 50 people to ransom,” the passenger added.

SpiceJet was at the receiving end of Thakur’s ire on Saturday evening as she created a scene and registered her protest over being ill-treated by the airline’s staff at the local airport after her flight from Delhi.

Reacting to Thakur’s complaint and protest over “ill-treatment”, SpiceJet on Sunday said it regretted the inconvenience faced by the MP. It, however, said safety of passengers was of utmost importance for the airline.

In its clarification, the airline said Thakur was not allowed to sit on the pre-allotted seat as it was in the first row — the emergency row. — IANS