India, Feb. 22 -- Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday criticised Air India for mismanagement with seat arrangements after he was allotted a broken seat and questioned whether they were cheating passengers.

In a post on X, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said, "Today I had to come from Bhopal to Delhi, inaugurate the Kisan Mela in Pusa, hold a meeting of the Natural Farming Mission in Kurukshetra and discuss with the representatives of the Kisan Organisation in Chandigarh. I had booked a ticket on Air India flight number AI436, I was allotted seat number 8C. I went and sat on the seat, the seat was broken and sunken in. It was uncomfortable to sit."

He added that when he asked the airline staff about the...