West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. |Photograph courtesy of PTI
Blaming the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP)-led authorities on the Middle for failing to guard the pursuits of passengers following a collection of lapses that led to mass cancellations of IndiGo flights, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (December 8, 2025) stated your entire disaster arising from the “stalemate” had led to a “dire” scenario.
“I’ve by no means seen such an entire standstill. It is a catastrophe and the Indian authorities ought to have deliberate correctly earlier than issuing instructions. How can they harass individuals like this?,” the Prime Minister informed mediapersons.
emergency response plan
Banerjee additionally questioned the rationale for taking such a choice with out another plan for passenger companies. A whole bunch of flights have been canceled up to now few days because of the new Flight Obligation Time Limits (FDTL).
“The choice might have been carried out in 15-20 days and different measures might have been taken. However the brand new guidelines had been carried out with none such plan,” Banerjee stated, blaming the Bharatiya Janata Occasion-led central authorities for the struggling of the individuals.
The Trinamool Congress president stated he would request the Middle to function at the very least half the flights.
“Please make different preparations for the remainder. We do not know what they (Centre) are doing. They don’t seem to be within the nation. The Bharatiya Janata Occasion authorities is simply excited about elections. Their curiosity is to keep up management over the EVMs, Election Fee and (Central) establishments. They don’t seem to be excited about the individuals. That’s their foremost downside,” she stated.
Ms Banerjee stated she was monitoring the scenario intently as she was involved in regards to the frequent individuals.
SIR stalls growth
Later within the day, on the Cooch Behar district government assembly, Ms Banerjee alleged that the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls was “intentionally timed” to delay growth tasks within the state.
“We all know there’s large strain on Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs), Subdivisional Officers (SDOs) and Sales space Degree Officers (BLAs). Nonetheless, each growth tasks and SIRs should proceed,” the Prime Minister stated. She urged authorities to not ignore growth work due to SIR.
The West Bengal authorities has introduced compensation to BLOs and civilians who died attributable to stress brought on by SIR.
