<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   In their first press conference since their agitation began on May 8, IPG Joint Secretary Tauseef Mukadam said, &quot;We are absolutely ready to talk to the Honourable Minister...We are willing to go right now.&quot;u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Asked what will be the &quot;way out&quot;, he said, &quot;We don&#39;t want our core demands to be met right now. Take back the pilots and give us an assurance that these demands will be discussed. ... We are not putting a gun on anyone&#39;s head or ever intend to do so. We are willing to join duty right now. It can be done in 15 minutes.&quot; Mukadam and three of his IPG colleagues said they were also willing to write &quot;another letter&quot; to the Minister seeking time from him to discuss the issues, adding that they had sought time from him earlier too when they began the strike.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   He said the strike last year by the national carrier&#39;s second pilots&#39; union -- Indian Commercial Pilots&#39; Association (ICPA) -- ended after all the sacked pilots were taken back and de-recognition of their union revoked.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;We are not asking for anything more than what happened last year,&quot; Mukadam said, charging the airline management with &quot;misleading&quot; the Ministry and the Minister on the issues involved in their protest. The press conference came on a day when Air India management filed a contempt petition against them in the Delhi High Court, saying the pilots had failed to comply with its order restraining them from undertaking the &quot;illegal&quot; stir.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Terming their protest illegal, the government also blamed the agitators for not coming to the negotiating table, with Singh saying, &quot;We have again and again said we are willing to talk. But they don&#39;t want to. &quot;They are not willing to talk unconditionally.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   They have conditions. It is an illegal strike and there are no issues in this strike,&quot; Singh said, adding that the Air India management was taking &quot;whatever action they need to take&quot;.</div>  

The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), spearheading the 16-day-old strike, today expressed willingness to talk "right now" with Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh if the 101 sacked Air India pilots were taken back

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