Arun Shourie was probably right on Jet Airways' Naresh Goyal

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quoted by others such as Sucheta Dalal: “Shourie then read out the recommendations of several parliamentarians, as well as those of the Standing Committee of Parliament. Lo and behold, they were the same as FICCI's, right down to the etceteras." Shourie asked his audience if it was a case of “Great minds that think alike? Or one great mind that was making everyone think alike?" Clearly it was the latter--Shourie informed the audience that FICCI’s aviation committee was chaired by none other than Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways, who had a vested interest in ensuring that foreign airlines did not control Air India (probably because it could result in serious competition for Jet). Shourie later narrated the incident in Parliament, when he also referred to Goyal as the “so-called" owner of Jet Airways.

He also told Parliament he wasn’t sure even as a minister whether Jet Airways was foreign owned or Indian owned. The carrier was suspected to have links with underworld dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel, something the now-defunct airline has denied consistently. A report in The Economic Times mentions that India’s external intelligence agency, RAW, had written to the home ministry in 2001 about large dubious investments in Jet by gulf sheikhs, the underworld and by smugglers.

A probe into the airline’s funding to ascertain if the underworld had invested in it had been ordered by the government. In 2002, the Intelligence Bureau gave adverse inputs about large dubious investments in the airline in writing to the Home Ministry, according to a report in The Economic Times. Then home minister L.K.