'Transparency, yes! But a bit later, pls?'
SBI — or GoI — doesn't like, with Digital India galloping along like a bareback horse in a Ladakh landscape, one would have thunk that retrieving info regarding purchases of electoral bonds for political party funding would be easy-peasy. Unless, of course, it's hard.
Which is what SBI has stated in its request to Supreme Court to extend the deadline from March 13 to June 30 to provide details regarding the now-banned, but kosher-till-last month, bonds. Unlike us wide-eyed, ingenuous folks, the suspicious-minded have pointed out that pushing the deadline back by three months is a cunning way of having that small matter of general elections out of the way.
SBI providing the court-demanded info after a new gov is in, so goes the convoluted thinking of the chary, could be an attempt to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Demand for transparency has been welcomed by all, SBI included. It's the timing of turning transparent that is causing ers and ums.
