The curious case of an upset FM and an apologetic banker

Who recorded the private meeting of bankers with the finance minister and made it public? For what?

You must have come across the audio and video clips of  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman giving vent to her frustrations at Rajnish Kumar, the boss of the nation’s largest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI), and calling the “bank for every Indian” “heartless” and “inefficient”.

She purportedly made these comments at a closed-door meeting at the Khanapara exhibition ground in Gu­wahati on February 27. Besides public sector bankers, finance minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma and the bureaucrats of the department of financial services were present in the camp organised by the SBI for reviewing the progress of financial