Business tycoon Vijay Mallya's exit from India continued to resonate in Parliament on Friday as well. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad attacked the Narendra Modi government accusing it of conspiring to allow Mallya to escape from the country.
The Congress asked that if the government could detain students and activists, why couldn't it detain Mallya. The opposition party also questioned the Centre on why the CBI's lookout notice was changed, allowing Mallya to leave India.
The BJP has hit back saying they would not allow Mallya to become another Ottavio Quattrocchi, the fugitive in the Bofors scam. The issue has been taken up by the Ethics Committee of Parliament.
However, it is not for the first time that the former liquor baron has sparked a war of words between top political parties.
In July 2012, CNN-IBN reported on the sudden transfer of the then Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) chief Bharat Bhushan. File noting, accessed by CNN-IBN, made it clear that Bhushan was sacked a day after he drafted a warning to Kingfisher Airlines threatening termination of licence.
Questions were raised against the then civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on whether air safety was being compromised to shield Kingfisher Airlines.
The noting by Bharat Bhushan followed a review of Kingfisher Airlines by DGCA .
"Kingfisher has failed to comply with the recovery plan submitted to the DGCA. It has failed to reinstate itself into the IATA ticketing system. It also failed to pay its employees six months salary despite assurances. DGCA is hereby giving Kingfisher 15 days notice after which their licence will be terminated," stated the file noting signed by Bhushan.
Bharat Bhushan was sacked within 24 hours. Strangely, the every accessible civil aviation minister was also not speaking to media about the issue. The DGCA, however, denied the existence of Bhushan's warning notice to Kingfisher.
The new Director General also gave a clean chit to all domestic airlines, 48 hours after Bharat Bhushan’s departure. Contrary to his predecessor, Prashant Sukul said in a statement, "Based on satisfactory compliance shown by the scheduled domestic airlines, letters were issued to all the scheduled airlines on the 25th May 2012 closing all their short term findings."
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