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BJP government greedy, wants to take away RBI reserves: Chidambaram

  •   Fri, Nov 09 2018 10:50:02 PM

Guwahati, Nov 9 (IANS): Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government is greedy and wants to take away the central bank's reserves.

"This government is greedy. No government in the past has asked for the reserve with the Reserve Bank of India," said Chidambaram, who was in Guwahati to hold consultations for preparation of the party's manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

He said that the RBI is not a limited company. "The RBI has a board of directors, but that cannot be compared with any private or public company. It is the central bank. The BJP government is trying to see the RBI as a limited company. They hardly have the understanding of the central Banks's role and function," he said.

Chidambaram said that the Centre was eyeing the RBI's reserves, for it did not get anything out of demonetisation as most of the money came back to the banks.

Asked about the RBI's board meeting scheduled for November 19, he said that even if the RBI Governor (Urjit Patel) resigns or complies with the government order of giving money from the reserves, the result will be catastrophic, and even worse than demonetisation.

"My information says that the government may force to pass a resolution at the RBI board meeting to transfer a large sum of money from the reserves. Two scenarios can emerge if such a situation happens. Either the RBI gives in or the Governor resigns. Both the situations will be a disaster and will have catastrophic impact on the country's economy," he warned.

"The Congress party believes that the RBI has the mandate to maintain monetary stability and nothing should be done to impair its ability to do so. The immediate goal of the government is to lay its hands on the reserves of the RBI and appropriate a sum of at least one lakh crore to meet its fiscal deficit target and to increase spending in an election year," he added.

Earlier on Friday, the government dismissed reports that it had sought Rs 3.6 lakh crore from the RBI reserves. Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said that there was no such proposal and that the country's fiscal deficit target was on track.

"Lot of misinformed speculation is going around in media. Government's fiscal math is completely on track. There is no proposal to ask RBI to transfer (Rs) 3.6 or (Rs) 1 lakh crore, as speculated," Garg said in a tweet. 

 
  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Nov 10 2018

    Modi will join Lalit & Nirav Modi in London ...

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  • El En Tea, Mumbai

    Sat, Nov 10 2018

    Why BJP behind the RBI sorces.
    Why Urjit Patel will resigjn as Governor
    All pre planned India is under Financial Threat.

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  • Valerian Menezes, Kota

    Sat, Nov 10 2018

    Reserve Bank is supposed to be a bank with sufficient "reserves" to shore up the economy in dire needs of country's unforeseeable economic catastrophe or emergency. If such reserves were not disturbed in the past, why do it now. The reason given by the government that this money is needed to rejuvenate public sector banks is not convincing. The bad loans in banks should be recovered from the borrowers. There seem to be many willful defaulters among borrowers even with sufficient assets. The banks should put in efforts to confiscate such assets before trying any other aid given to them. Government should create a legal atmosphere in the country to facilitate the banks to rein in erring borrowers. Only after exhausting such punitive measures could the government think of offering aid to the banks to shore up their NPA. Public money should not be wasted to help the willful wealthy defaulting borrowers to get away from their liability. Hence, in all fairness, there should not be a question of RBI releasing the reserves to the government.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Nov 10 2018

    Thugs of Hindustan ...

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Sat, Nov 10 2018

    BJP's own Subramanyam Swamy predicted this accurately if Chidambaram is speculating. BJP is ready to go any extent to gain power at any cost even to the extent of making the country bankrupt and it is going to happen because there are no more fraudulent ideas to gather such huge amount in such short period. BJP is not bothered about the country, people, Hindus, activists and cows.

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