'Insult to PM Modi', Sanjay Raut on SBI's 'kam chori' as lender seeks more time to submit electoral bonds data

After state-run lender State Bank of India (SBI) moved the Supreme Court over electoral bonds data sharing, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that the bank executives should be punished for 'kam chori' (truancy), adding that it is an insult to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who works "20 hours all 365 days 9 years 10 months".

On Monday, SBI moved the top court seeking an extension of the deadline till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the apex court had directed the bank to furnish the details to the Election Commission of India by March 6.

Raut, in his social media post on microblogging website X (formerly Twitter), wrote: "Yeh kya ho raha hai. Chairman and Directors should be punished for insulting our . Modiji has changed India now it’s ! And SBI asked Supreme Court time of 4 months to submit details of Electoral Bond."

"How dare they insult our dear who has been working 20 hrs all 365 days 9 years 10 months! And these Kam Chor want 4 months? Send them all to Jail. Aaram Haram hai!" he added.

In an application filed before the , the contended that retrieval of information from "each silo" and the procedure of matching the information of one silo to that of the other would be a time-consuming exercise.

The plea submitted that due to stringent measures undertaken to ensure that the identity of the donors was kept anonymous, "decoding" the and matching donors to the donations made would be a complex process.

In a landmark judgement that delivered a big blow to the government, the Supreme Court on February 15 annulled the electoral bonds scheme for political funding, saying it violates the Constitutional right to freedom of speech