Taking a dig at the government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that selling public sector banks to \u201ccronies\u201d will compromise the country\u2019s financial security.<\/p>\n
He also accused the government of \u201cprivatising profit\u201d and \u201cnationalising loss\u201d. \u201cGovernment of India (GOI) is privatising profit and nationalising loss. Selling PSBs to Modicronies gravely compromises India\u2019s financial security,\u201d Gandhi tweeted.<\/p>\n
The Congress leader also expressed solidarity with the protesting bank employees, who are on a two-day strike against alleged privatisation of public sector banks. \u00a0\u201cI stand in solidarity with the striking bank employees,\u201d he said on Twitter. The bank strike, led by nine unions of public sector banks (PSBs) in the country, continued for day-two on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Customers will be inconvenienced to get services such as cash withdrawals, deposits, cheque clearances, remittance services. Government transactions related to treasury as well as business transactions will also be impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taking a dig at the government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that selling public sector banks to \u201ccronies\u201d will compromise the country\u2019s financial security. He also accused the government of \u201cprivatising profit\u201d and \u201cnationalising loss\u201d. \u201cGovernment of India (GOI) is privatising profit and nationalising loss. Selling PSBs to Modicronies gravely compromises India\u2019s financial …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n