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With almost all domestic airlines barring him from flying, TDP MP from Anantapur JC Diwakar Reddy decided to board an international flight, and left the country for France.
While it is yet to be known why he is visiting France, reports suggest that Diwakar went there on a holiday for six to ten days.
Despite all this, the MP boarded the same flight to travel to Hyderabad.
Initial reports had suggested that Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, who also happened to be at the airport when the incident occurred, had intervened and arranged for
a boarding pass for his TDP colleague.
Raju denied these reports and told a television channel on Friday that the MP came to him and told him that he had been waiting at the airport for one hour but was denied the boarding pass.
Hours after tweeting that he would get the incident probed, Raju said there was no need for probe.
Raju said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) norms were clear that a passenger should get the boarding pass 45 minutes before the flight's departure time and the safety
regulations were same for all categories of passengers. He found fault with his party MP's behaviour.
Reporting that the MP and a 12-member family contingent flew out on an Emirates flight, the Deccan Chronicle stated that Diwakar Reddy spoke to the newspaper from Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi
International Airport (RGIA) before he boarded the flight.
Following the incident, IndiGo had released a statement, and said that the staff had politely informed him that boarding for his flight was closed and offered to accommodate him in a
subsequent flight.
Following this, he was banned from flying by IndiGo, Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, GoAir, AirAsia and Vistara.
Meanwhile, the Aviation Ministry at the Centre has reportedly ordered a probe into the incident on how the MP was allowed to board the flight after he was denied permission.
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