Staying with the CPI(M), Prakash Karat and some of his party colleagues reached Visakhapatnam for the party congress flying private airline IndiGo, ditching national carrier Air India. One might remember when the Vajpayee government mooted offloading shares in Air India a CPI(M) statement had strongly criticised it, asking "the working class and the people of India to resist this dangerous and anti-national move".