Kingfisher Airlines workers plan hunger strike

Meanwhile, employees of Kingfisher Airlines who have not been paid salaries for the past 17 months on Saturday threatened to start an indefinite hunger strike from Monday, demanding action against the defaulting company. They also want the company's leaders to be disqualified from the Parliament.

"We are going on an indefinite hunger strike from Monday. We have approached other political parties as well but as of now, we have not got any satisfactory response from them. We request you to support us in whatever ways possible," Anjan Kumar Deveshwar, a Kingfisher employees, said in a letter on behalf of the employees to Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia.

Alleging that Kingfisher kept paying its employees posted abroad due to the strict laws applicable there, they said, "Non-payment of salary should be treated as a cognizable offence so that no one else has to suffer like us."