Surat: Air-India's Surat-Delhi flight was delayed by an hour here after BJP MPs and party workers sat down on the runway in front of the flight protesting against poor air-connectivity to the city, police said.Two BJP MPs, Surat city Mayor and hundreds of party workers entered the airport and sat down on the runway of the airport here, they said.So far political parties and other groups used agitational programmes like rail blockades and road blockades as a form of protest, this might be for the first time that air-plane blockade programme was used as a form of agitation, police added.The BJP workers were detained by the police to clear the runway and to facilitate takeoff of the Delhi-bound flight which was delayed by over an hour, Airport Authority of India officials said.
29/07/11 IBN Live
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