Bharatiya Janata Party will start agitation against central government for the development of Surat airport from 29th of Jul, Surat city President Purnesh Modi and Member of Parliament C.R.Patil announced today.

Narrating the details of agitation, Shri Modi said, “there will be a gathering of around 5,000 citizens of Surat at the airport on 29th. There will be a public meeting there itself. Later a representation of more than 60 persons will take a flight and leave for Delhi where it will meet central Aviation minister.”

“The central government doesn’t want Gujarat progress and Surat’s development. Therefore Deccan360’s service connecting Surat with other cities couldn’t kick off. The company was all set to begin its air service, even the tent for inauguration function was set up, however the central government didn’t want to materialize this and therefore the airline company was threatened and asked to withdraw. We are no more in mood to tolerate this anymore,” Patil further said.

-When Praful Patel was civil aviation minister, a group of representatives from Surat had met him, but Patel started only the meeting by saying that ‘say anything but not about Surat’s air connectivity.’

-When new civil aviation minister Vyalar Ravi was told about Surat’s air connectivity issue, he promised a meeting in 10 days and was noa available then.

-Surat airport has only one flight connecting the city to Delhi. There’s no other flight on this airport.

-Only one flight that operates from Surat airport and connects it to Delhi charges double compare to similar services of Mumbai-Delhi and Rajkot-Delhi.