Keep running Air India operations is difficult for the government without privatising the loss-making national carrier, Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. It comes days after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government is aiming to sell loss-making Air India by March next year. “If we don’t privatise Air India, where will we get the money from to operate it? Right now, Air India is a first class asset & we will get bidders if we sell it. And if we take ideological positions then it will be difficult to run it,” Hardeep Singh Puri told news agency ANI.
