Union civil aviation minister Praful Patel today put his weight behind Jet Airways' application seeking to fly to the US and said the issue of security clearance by home ministry to the country's largest carrier is unnecessarily delayed.
"The home ministry has given the security clearance to Jet to fly domestic routes. Why can not the carrier be given permission to fly to the US.
"If it cannot be given security clearance to fly to the US, then it should also not be allowed to operate in domestic routes," Patel said adding that the issue should be put to rest by the home ministry at the earliest.
Strange are the ways ministers behave. Or may be not. We have instances of logrolling when politicians try to cooperate with each other to pass laws that might satisfy each other's constituencies, but perhaps not the society at large. And you have such instances as above when ministers, even of the same government, don't.
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