It is to be noted that along with Qatar, other middle-eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Kuwait also condemned the remarks made by Nupur Sharma on the Prophet Muhammed, and hence there are demands to ban companies hailing from these nations as well.

Digital Desk: Twitter has recently been flooded with tweets having "boycott Qatar Airways" as hashtags, taking the phrase to the top of the trending list on Twitter. The series of incidents taking the phrase among the trending ones started with the comment of BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and the reaction of the Middle Eastern country to it. The twitteratis are saying that the country that gave citizenship to Maqbool Fida Hussain (MF Hussain), who made pictures showing nude and obscene photos of Hindu deities, is advising India on blasphemy over a statement by Nupur Sharma.

Qatar Airways has become one of the companies that the twitteratis want to get banned in India as the company belongs to the middle-eastern nation. One of the Twitter users said, "Please tell us the names of companies like Qatar, Arab, Iran, etc., which we can ban in our country."

Earlier, the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Indian ambassador Dr. Deepak Mittal and handed him an official note expressing disappointment and condemnation of the controversial remarks made by an official in the ruling party in India against Prophet Muhammed, ANI reported, quoting Qatar MOFA.

It is to be noted that along with Qatar, other middle-eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Kuwait also condemned the remarks made by Nupur Sharma on the Prophet Muhammed, and hence there are demands to ban companies hailing from these nations as well.

Meantime, Qatar Airways and IndiGo recently reactivated their codeshare partnership after India resumed regular international passenger flights on March 27. In a codeshare partnership, each carrier on its distribution system can sell seats for the other's flights. In November 2019, IndiGo signed a codeshare agreement with Qatar Airways.

On April 19, their joint statement said, "As part of this expanded codeshare agreement, Qatar Airways will be placing its marketing code on IndiGo operated flights between Doha and Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, starting from April 25, and Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi, and Kozhikode, starting from May 9."