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New Delhi: Reacting to the State Bank of India's plea before the Supreme Court seeking more time to disclose electoral bonds' details, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of using the bank to hide its alleged "dubious dealing".y...
Weeks after the Supreme Court ordered India's largest bank to disclose the details of bonds encashed by political parties, the SBI moved the apex court and sought an extension of the deadline till June 30..
"The Modi government is using the largest bank of our country as a shield to hide its dubious dealings through Electoral Bonds," he said..
Congress MP Manish Tewari said the Supreme Court should not allow the SBI to "get away with its chicanery on Electoral Bonds"..
"When the Supreme Court has stated that it is the right of the people of the country to know the truth about electoral bonds, then why does the SBI not want this information to be made public before the elections?" he added..
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