Vijay Mallya expresses sympathy with Naresh Goyal, slams Centre

New Delhi: Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya has once again attacked the government for discriminating between public sector and private airlines while extending solidarity with crisis-hit Jet Airways and its founder Naresh Goyal. In a series of tweets, Mallya said he was sorry that so many airlines had bitten the dust in the country. “Even though Jet was a major competitor to Kingfisher at the time I feel sorry to see such a large private airline on the brink of failure when government used (Rs) 35K crore of public funds to bail out AirIndia. Just being a PSU is no excuse for discrimination,” Mallya tweeted. For want of cash and saddled under heavy debt, Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines had shut down in October 2012. (IANS)

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