HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, March 5: K Narayana, CPI general secretary on Tuesday urged the central government and the Reserve Bank of India to issue necessary directives to the State Bank of India to submit the entire data pertaining to anonymous donors through election bonds.
The Reserve Bank of India is the constitutional body and the responsibility lies on it to give necessary directives to its subsidiary to honour the verdict of highest court of the nation. The Supreme Court of India has asked the State Bank of India to submit the data by March 6, but it wanted to submit by June 30.
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“This is nothing but to escape from false pretext that they need more time. All transactions are not manual, but digital. In minutes entire data will come out. If SBI will reveal data on election bonds by June 30, it is clear that it is postponing the issue by five years,” said the CPI secretary.
“Through election bonds BJP has garnered 55 per cent of total election bonds. The RBI governor belongs to Gujarat and he is well known as Modi’s man. Can the chief of SBI knock the doors of judiciary without the consent of chief of RBI? The constitutional bodies are trying to unearth certain lacunas to dilute the purpose of the Supreme Court’s judgment in this matter. Hence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should intervene and direct the SBI to withdraw the petition of extension in submitting data,” said Kanak Gogoi, state secretary of the CPI.
