Hisar (Haryana), Sep 9 (Inditop.com) A helicopter carrying Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made an unscheduled landing here Wednesday due to bad weather ahead.
District administration officials said that the helicopter carrying Hooda, who was flying from New Delhi to Muktsar in Punjab, landed in this Haryana city, 300 km from state capital Chandigarh, Wednesday afternoon.
The state Congress said that Hooda was “safe and sound” after the emergency landing of his private helicopter.
“Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is safe and sound after the emergency landing of the private helicopter in Hisar due to bad weather. He was travelling towards Muktsar. He was going to pay his tribute to former Haryana governor and former Punjab chief minister, late H.S Brar. After the emergency landing at Hisar, Mr. Hooda proceeded back to New Delhi via road,” Haryana Congress spokesman Surender Singh Hooda said in Chandigarh.
“The chief minister’s chopper made an absolutely safe landing here. It was only an unscheduled landing. He has left for Delhi by road now,” Hisar Superintendent of Police Navdeep Singh Virk told Inditop.
Sources in the administration said the chief minister opted to safely land here after the chopper pilots warned of bad weather ahead.
Hooda was flying in a hired private helicopter since the Election Commission has prohibited the use of the state government aircraft and helicopter by the chief minister and ministers in view of assembly polls in the state Oct 13.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed last week when their helicopter crashed on a hill of the Nallamalla forest range near Kurnool town in the state.
