A Bengaluru Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) air safety official on Sunday visited the incident site near Pethsirur in Kalaburagi where a training aircraft of Redbird Flight Training Academy made an emergency landing.
"Today was the day when on June 25, 1975 democracy was strangled by declaring an emergency in the country. But the opposition says that democracy is in danger from BJP and democracy is being strangled. But I say If this was the case then how governments were formed in Karnataka, Chhattisgarh
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Sunday said that democracy was strangled and leaders were sent to jail after the Emergency was imposed in 1975.
A trainee aircraft of Redbird flight training academy made an emergency landing near Pethsirur village in Kalaburagi around 9.30 am today due to a technical problem, said airport authority.
"Union Home Minister called me today and inquired about the flood situation in Assam. He said National Disaster Response Force has been kept on stand-by and for any emergency Government of India is there," he told ANI.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is observing June 25 as a "Black Day" to mark 48 years since the Emergency was imposed in 1975 by the then Congress government led by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday mocked at the opposition party meeting, saying that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav were "daydreaming" reminding them of their "suffering" during the Emergency imposed by late
"This is an emergency exercise performed by IAF to check the quality and strength of the airstrip so that emergency jets could easily land and go on the airstrip," said the DM.