A year after he told his supporters in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) that the job of Union Civil Aviation Minister was not going to be easy and that “he was ready to face the challenges”, Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu is at the forefront of dealing with an almost unprecedented crisis in the country’s recent aviation history.

The youngest Union Minister in the Narendra Modi government and three-time Srikakulam MP, who was once praised by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for his passionate defence of women’s rights, has been at the centre of national attention since last week as he deals with the fallout of the crisis triggered by the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights. On Tuesday, Naidu met with IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers in Delhi to discuss the stabilisation measures that the airline had

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