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A notice of breach of privilege has been moved against SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya on Friday by the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil.
Vikhe-Patil moved the notice against Bhattacharya over her recent remarks about farm loan waiver. A letter has been sent to the Speaker Haribhau Bagde requesting him to initiate the actions under breach of privilege and transfer the matter to a committee, which examines the breach of privilege issues.
In the notice, Vikhe-Patil said that in the past two years, 8,000 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra alone.
Therefore, the people of the State have demanded a complete farm loans waiver package.
Under these conditions, Bhattacharya’s public comments that such measure would disturb the credit discipline among the borrowers and they would keep expecting more such waivers in future are like rubbing salt in the farmers' wounds, he said.
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