New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Responding to the claims of Congress MP K C Venugopal that "there was another aircraft in the runway when we are going to land" Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya called it a "extremely serious", claim denied by the Air India a day after a Delhi bound flight made an emergency landing at the Chennai airport.

In a post on X, Malviya said, "This is extremely serious. If senior Congress leader KC Venugopal claims an Air India flight had to abort landing in Chennai because another aircraft was on the runway and the airline immediately contradicts him, then one of them is misrepresenting facts".

"Aviation safety is paramount, and social media posts from supposedly responsible people cannot go unscrutinised. If th...