Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday, March 9, 2024, strongly condemned State Bank of India’s plea seeking time till June 30 to comply with a Supreme Court direction, to make public, the details of electoral bonds purchased since April 2019.
These details, Mr. Chidambaram said, could be compiled in a day. The Central government does not want the details to come out before the elections, he alleged, adding: “It is condemnable that the largest bank, SBI, is acting in favour of the government. The case is coming up before the Supreme Court on March 11. I hope the apex court will deliver a good verdict,” he told reporters at the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee’s Headquarters in Chennai, Sathyamurthy Bhavan.
To a question on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s frequent visits to Tamil Nadu, Mr. Chidambaram asked why the Prime Minister was not talking about issues such as unemployment, price rise and the delay in the AIIMS, Madurai project.
