CM seeks PM's intervention over ban on Indian flights

Thiruvananthapuram, June 28 (UNI) Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw the Kuwait government's decision not to allow Indian flights to land in their country.

In a fax message to Prime Minister, he said as four lakh out of the six lakh Indians working in Kuwait were Keralites, the Kuwait government's decision would create difficulties to those who were preparing to fly to their native place for summer holidays, a release said.

Mr Achuthanandan said the government had received a lot of complaints from various Malayalee Organisations and individuals in this regard.

Kuwait had issued a notice to 'Air India' and 'Indian' saying it will not receive flights of the airlines from July 1 in the capital, alleging that New Delhi was going back on commitments in the air bilateral agreement between the two countries.

'Air-India' operates 12 flights every week to Kuwait, while 'Indian' operates six flights on the same sector from different destinations in India.

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