All I want is to express solidarity with Vemula: Kamra

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, banned by three airlines from flying for allegedly heckling TV journalist Arnab Goswami aboard a flight, on Wednesday said he just wanted to express solidarity with PhD scholar Rohith Vemula and at no point he was "unruly or disruptive".

He said the flying suspension was not "shocking" for him and explained why he allegedly heckled Goswami.

In a fresh statement, Kamra said the emotions got the better of him, but if he hadn't reacted -- triggered by the coverage of Vemula's death by Goswami in his TV shows -- he could not have forgiven himself.

Vemula, a scholar at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide in January 2016 allegedly due to caste discrimination on the campus.

The comedian was suspended from flying by IndiGo and Air India on Tuesday after he allegedly heckled Goswami aboard a Mumbai-Lucknow plane of IndiGo and posted a video clip of the incident on his Twitter handle. In the video clip, Kamra is seen making a reference to the death of Vemula.

On Wednesday, Kamra took to Twitter and shared the link of an 11-minute video, a compilation of multiple past incidents, and wrote, "The emotions did of course get the better of me (referring to the Goswami episode), but if I didnt emote, Id never be able to forgive myself."