Air India crisis: Pilots seek PM, Sonia's intervention

Agitating Air India pilots on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress top brass to step in to resolve the impasse over the 52-day long strike, as the condition of some of them on protest fast worsened.
The Indian Pilots' Guild, which is spearheading the agitation and the five-day-old hunger strike, shot off letters to Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi , seeking their 'urgent intervention to resolve the prolonged agitation'.
With three pilots, who were on hunger strike since Sunday, being hospitalised yesterday following deterioration in their health, the condition of a few more in Delhi and Mumbai worsened.
The agitators got a shot in their arm with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations extending support to them and urging aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation to 'make a positive contribution towards ending this dispute' by bringing both sides to the negotiating table.
28/06/12 PTI/Rediff.com

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