Gau Yatra tour to Meghalaya stands cancelled
Shillong, Sept 28: The Airport Authority of India today denied permission to the chartered flight of Jagadguru Shankaracharya.
The denial to land at Shillong airport from Agartala has irked the Jagadguru Shankaracharya, who has threatened to file a petition before the Supreme Court against the airport authorities. The airport has denied permission of landing to the chartered flight citing law and order situation.
“…due to certain law and order situation at Meghalaya as intimated by the state administration as well as the Airport Director Shillong Airport, the departure of the said non-scheduled flight from Agartala to Shillong is hereby not permitted,” an official source said.
The proposed tour of the sheer stands cancelled.
On Friday, Jagadguru had arrived at Itanagar airport for ‘Gau Yatra’, however, protest by civil bodies had forced him to return.
At Shillong Airport Umroi, civil bodies had converged to express their strong opposition to the arrival of Jagadguru.
A spokesperson of the group, Raja Saksham Singh Yogi said, “We are going back to Guwahati (from Agartala) but will take up legal proceedings against the Airport authorities. We will seek legal advice to file suit against Shillong and Agartala airport for the denial of permission”.
“We we don’t want to create any kind of mess or disturb the law and order. But will file a petition in Supreme Court soon,” he added.
Asked, Yogi said, “We were coming peacefully just to share our feelings not to disturb anyone.”
On Friday, the Meghalaya government had written to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to deny the landing of a chartered flight of the leader of a cow protection group at Umroi airport on Saturday.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary DP Wahlang.
District administrations of both East Khasi Hills and Ri Bhoi have also promulgated section 163 of the BNSS prohibiting holding of such cow protection rallies.
Meanwhile, the central puja committee (CPC) had also made it clear that they are not supporting the cow protection group and their move to hold a rally to declare cow as mother of the nation in Shillong on October 2.
