TDP-Cong come to blows at Dehradun airport over flying rescued home
June 26, 2013  18:47
While the armed forces continue with their rescue operations relentlessly, politicians spar at the Dehradun airport to claim credit over who will fly rescued pilgrims home.

TV images show TDP's Ramesh Rathod and Congress politician V Hanumantha Rao coming to blows at the Jolly Grant airport in Dehradun. Boarding passes of the pilgrims were apparently torn up. Rathod and Rao trade charges on different TV channels. Worse, Rathod says nothing is being done for the pilgrims by the armed forces for the people from his state. "Hanumantha Rao started abusing me and used unparliamentary language," says Rathod. He refuses to admit he made a mistake. In fact, TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, who was at the scene, watched the fight and did not bother to stop the two. 

Naidu has now apologised for the squabble but blames the Congress.
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