‘A flight to remember’: Dayanidhi Maran says honoured to be flown by Captain Rudy

DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran was in for a shock on Tuesday as he boarded an IndiGo plane to make his approach house to Chennai from New Delhi. As he took his seat within the first row, the captain requested him: “So, you are travelling in this flight as well!”
Unable to recognise the captain, who wore a masks, Maran nodded with a puzzled expression on his face. “So you don’t recognise me!” the captain exclaimed in a well-recognized voice.
But the smile behind the masks quickly gave him away. “I realised then that it was none other than my colleague, senior member of Parliament and former Union minister – my very good friend Thiru Rajiv Pratap Rudy,” Maran mentioned.
Maran was in Delhi to attend a gathering of the Parliamentary Estimates Committee. Two hours previous to the flight, Maran and Rudy had been a part of intense discussions on the assembly. “I couldn’t believe my eyes, seeing his transformation from a politician to a pilot,” Maran mentioned.
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“How often does a sitting Member of Parliament captain a commercial flight? I’m sure I will be talking about this for a long time. Thank you Captain Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MP for flying us safely from Delhi to Chennai,” Maran added. “I could only say that I was honoured to be flown by my good friend and colleague.”
Rudy, former civil aviation minister, is a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar and nationwide spokesperson for the BJP. Rudy served as Minister of State when Maran’s father, Murasoli Maran, was Union Minister for Commerce. He flies ceaselessly.