Chennai: DMK Lok Sabha MP from Central Chennai, Dayanidhi Maran, received a surprising response when the voice that was familiarly welcomed him on Indigo aircraft in the afternoon from Delhi to Chennai on Tuesday.
MP has shocked the house after meeting the parliamentary estimation committee in New Delhi.
“So, are you traveling on this flight too?” The captain asked Maran, who sat in the front row, after all passengers boarded the plane.
Maran nodded in affirmatively wondering why the pilot sounded so familiar.
Even though a frequent traveler, Maran can not recognize the man behind the mask.
“So, you can’t recognize me,” The captain was confused.
Immediately, his smile gave him.
The captain was none other than a fellow lawmaker of Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Only two hours earlier, the two parliamentarians were involved in intense discussions at the meeting of the estimation committee.
None of them realized the pleasant meeting in the shop later that day.
“I was surprised and told Rudyji that I did not believe that he would be the captain who flew us from Delhi to Chennai.
He laughed and said,” Yes, I noticed that you did not recognize me, I often fly! “I can only say that I was honored to be flown by my good friends and colleagues.
Rudyji also serves as Minister of State, when my father is a minister of unity for trade, “Maran tweeted.
Rudy, in fact, juggles many professions easily.
“This is my fourth profession.
I teach the economy, take a case as a lawyer in Patna.
I became political and I was also a pilot,” he told Toi.
“But there is no conflict here.
Instead of being a passenger, I fly a commercial aircraft as an honor pilot to fulfill my commercial pilot license obligations.
I am not an employee and I did not draw a salary,” he said.
“I have to be the only member of parliament in the world that flew a big jet.
I flew Airbus 320 and 321.
I was the oldest to get a commercial pilot license, when I was 50 years old.
Now I am 59 and have recorded 30,000 hours of commercial airbus flying , “Rudy said.
“A flight to remember indeed! How often are the members of the Parliament captain of a commercial flight? I am sure I will talk about this for a long time.
Thank you Captain Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MP for flying us safely from Delhi to Chennai!” Tweeted Maran.
It’s not the end of the story.
Rudy, who was in Chennai and attended the parliamentary committee on trips and civil aviation on Wednesday, will fly commercial jets to Kochi on Thursday.
The list of passengers including former Deputy Minister of Bihar Sushil Modi, former Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Harurat and 20 other MPs.
Rudy has a farewell shot.
“As the Minister of State to trade in the NDA government, led by B Vajpayee, I was assistant Murasoli Maran in the WTO talks in Doha.
When I asked Dayanidhi Maran on the flight if he wanted to write on my scrapbook, he said he would issue a detailed tweet , Even though I was on the opposite side.
His movements had fallen far across the country’s political brotherhood, “Rudy signed.