Dropping the right name

The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has loudly been taking up the cause of Captain Rajat Rana who asked for the offloading of Member of Parliament Abdul Wahab for delaying a take off. ICPA General Secretary Captain Vikram Yadav took on Wahab for referring to pilots as “glorified drivers”. And in his attack on Wahab, it is clear that Yadav had adroitly picked up the art of political rhetoric from father-in-law Lalu Prasad Yadav. He started by repeatedly pitting Wahab’s comments about pilots against the fact that Rajiv Gandhi had also been a pilot. He carried on the refrain in a letter he wrote to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on the matter. It was, he wrote, a “shame on the years of hard work put in by our predecessors like Rajiv Gandhi” that pilots can be referred to as “glorified drvers”. Captain Yadav must certainly have scored a few points with his father-in-law, if not the UPA.