Now, comedian Kunal Kamra says he wants to do a Facebook live with Arnab Goswami

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, who is facing flying ban by several airlines after he heckled journalist Arnab Goswami onboard an IndiGo flight in January, tweeted that he will do a Facebook live with the journalist next time.

“Next time I’ll do a facebook live with Arnab,” tweeted Kamra along with the news of the Union government permitting airlines operating in India to provide in-flight Wi-Fi services to passengers.

"The Pilot-in-Command may permit the access of Internet services by passengers on board an aircraft in flight, through Wi-Fi on board, when laptop, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, e-reader or a point of sale device is used in flight mode or airplane mode," an official notification from the government had stated.

Kamra was banned by several airlines, including IndiGo, from flying aboard for a few months after he shared a video shot onboard an IndiGo flight in which the comic was seen trying to heckle the anchor. The video, which had gone viral, had the anchor trying to avoid Kamra even as the comic continued to pose him a few questions and call him a “coward” repeatedly. "I am part of the tukde-tukde narrative. You should deflate me. You should take enemies of the state down. You should make sure the country is in safe hands," Kamra was heard saying, even as the journalist continues to remain silent.

While many lambasted the comic, several others, including politicians like Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi had rushed to his support.

"The truth is that it was time someone gave him (Goswami) a taste of his own medicine," senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had said. "These are the words he regularly uses to berate his innocent victims, except he does so in a hectoring, bullying manner & at higher volume & pitch than Kunal Kamra does in this video," Tharoor tweeted.

"The ban imposed on Kunal Kamra by four airlines is the act of a coward leveraging his influence with the Govt to silence a critic. Those who use their 'news' cameras as 24x7 tools of propaganda, should show some spine when the camera is turned on them," Rahul Gandhi had said in a tweet.