Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 -- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Central Government to intervene in "predatory hiking" of airfares and to increase flight services to bring back Indians stuck in the Gulf countries amid conflict in West Asia.

In a post on X, Pinarayi Vijayan said, "Wrote a letter to PM Modi drawing urgent attention to the distress faced by our Pravasis in GCC countries due to the current conflict. Thousands, including many Keralites, are stranded due to flight shortages and airspace closures. Urged the Union Government to intervene against the predatory hiking of airfares and to increase flight services to Indian cities."

Vijayan also said that the ...