Two passengers travelling on the same US-bound Air India aircraft from Mumbai as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have come out in his support, saying he did not delay the flight even as he has threatened legal action once he returns to India.


An angry Fadnavis had tweeted yesterday that he would file for defamation once he was back in the country over the controversy of his delegation delaying the Air India flight from Mumbai to New York on June 29.


"Enough is enough. Once I'm back to India I will initiate proceedings of criminal defamation," he had tweeted. Following the tweets by the Chief Minister, two persons on the same flight took to the micro-blogging site to support him saying he did not delay the flight.


"@Dev_Fadnavis I was present in the flight AI 191. CM and delegation reached in time. Flight delayed due to immigration problem," a user by the name of Dushyant tweeted.


According to his Twitter profile @dushyantkagarwa, he is an author and freelance journalist based in Udaipur.


Another Twitter user Arvind Shah tweeted, "@Dev_Fadnavis I was in AI 191 and sitting behind CM in seat (8D), He neither called or try to delay flight, he was busy reading file".


Both the tweets were retweeted by Fadnavis, who had first denied the allegation that he had forced to delay the flight to New York in a tweet on June 30. He had said the allegations were "false & misleading".