The aircraft was scheduled to operate the flight 6E 6068 from Kolkata to Agartala in Tripura, but was grounded after the incident.

As the Shiv Sena UBT is facing a deep crisis with a significant number of MPs turned rebels, party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday offered to quit from his position amid mistrust in the leadership.

At the meeting, Banerjee was accompanied by senior TMC leaders Kalyan Banerjee, Derek O’Brien, Mahua Moitra, and Sougata Roy. They sought to invalidate the rebels MPs’ claims of a merger with the Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India.