In a rather surprising turn of events at IPL7 auction venue, it was reported that hundreds of striking Kingfisher Airlines’ employees have submitted applications to IPL board and BCCI, wanting to be auctioned during the event.
The latest development was seen as peculiar, one-of-its-kind and unexpected issue, where everyone was waiting for suspense of which player would be tagged most to unravel.
Upon enquiring further, it was revealed that these employees have turned up at the auction, coming right from the protests.
“We just learned that Mr. Mallya is shelling out money at the auctions, with a cheerful face and without any excuses – like the one he gives us – so we showed up here,” explained an employee.
The airline management is due to pay its employees’ salary of nearly 13 months and Mr. Mallya, with quite visible concern, asked them to call off protest because he can’t pay them with no funds in the company.
“I just came to know that Mr. Mallya spent Rs 14crore for Yuvraj Singh! Is that true? That’s twice the money he owes me,” said a man with starving-since-centuries expressions.
The employees’ claimed that they understand Mr. Mallya’s circumstances with government rules refraining transfer of funds from one company to another, or something like that, and so we’ve come here where he’ll have no problem spending crores.
“And that too for about a month’s services!” said one expectant pilot-by-profession.
These employees can be auctioned under C-grade category and the experience in cricket is of little significance with the format of the game requiring only good bat-swinging ability, which can be developed with little training, said experts.
“If the board doesn’t allow us to take part in auction then we are ready to protest,” threatened the group, "we are even mulling to collaborate with protest specialist Mr. Arvind Kejriwal."
“We’ve been protesting for so long that it has become our secondary profession,” few murmured.
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