{"id":328903,"date":"2020-11-24T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328903"},"modified":"2020-11-24T05:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T05:45:02","slug":"rahul-gandhi-takes-jibe-at-centre-over-rbi-proposal-to-overhaul-banking-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-takes-jibe-at-centre-over-rbi-proposal-to-overhaul-banking-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi takes jibe at Centre over RBI proposal to overhaul banking industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/demonetisation-was-an-attack-on-indias-unorganized-economy-rahul-gandhi\/rahul-demo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-325962\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-325962 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rahul-demo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-demo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-demo.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at the Centre and asked the people to understand the &#8216;chronology&#8217; of the measures proposed by an internal Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel to allow large corporates to act as promoters of banks after necessary amendments to the Banking Regulations Act,1949.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking to the microblogging site, Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Chronology samajhiye:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">First, karz maafi for few big companies. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Next, huge tax cuts for companies. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Now, give people&#8217;s savings directly to banks set up by these same companies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">RBI had constituted a internal panel to review extant ownership guidelines and corporate structure for Indian private sector banks. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The panel&#8217;s report was made public last Friday. RBI panel has also recommended raising the cap on promoters&#8217; stake in private sector banks to 26 %.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Several experts including former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan have warned against the move.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at the Centre and asked the people to understand the &#8216;chronology&#8217; of the measures proposed by an internal Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel to allow large corporates to act as promoters of banks after necessary amendments to the Banking Regulations Act,1949. Taking to the microblogging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":325962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579,913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328904,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328903\/revisions\/328904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}