In Tuesday’s statement, CEO Pieter Elbers once again apologised for the chaos over the last week. “We have let you down when a major operational disruption happened and we are sorry for that,” he said.

Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, claimed the ECI has no answer to the allegations he made about bogus electors on the voter rolls in several states. Gandhi has earlier held a number of press conferences levelling “vote theft” allegations against the BJP government.

The stringent government order comes as the budget airline faces its worst operational crisis in its near 20-year history. On Tuesday, IndiGo cancelled more than 400 flights, with airports serving Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai being the worst hit. Here are more details.