In a bid to find a solution to the airport workers' agitation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday invited the AAI Employees Joint Forum leaders for talks.
The government also agreed to consider the alternative plan for modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports that was submitted by the forum to the prime minister last year, top Left leaders said.
The plan gives Airports Authority of India the responsibility for modernising the two major metro airports. The leaders, including CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his CPI counterpart A B Bardhan, had a 30 minute-meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the impasse created by the airport workers agitation for the last three days.
The meeting was also attended by Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, besides Abani Roy (RSP), G Devarajan (Forward Bloc), CITU chief M K Pandhe and AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta.
"We informed the prime minister about our full support to the employees of the Airports Authority of India. We requested him to invite the workers for talks. He agreed and assured us that the (alternate plan) proposal would be taken up for consideration," Karat said.
