S Gurumurthy, who has been nominated to the Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by the Centre and is an RSS ideologue and also the editor of right-wing Tamil magazine Thuglak, recently made a derogatory remark against public sector banks and their employees in the presence of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman during a meeting in Chennai.
S Gurumurthy, who has been nominated to the Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by the Centre and is an RSS ideologue and also the editor of right-wing Tamil magazine Thuglak, recently made a derogatory remark against public sector banks and their employees in the presence of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman during a meeting in Chennai. Outraged bank employees condemned Gurumurthy’s statement and demanded his apology and resignation from the RBI Board. Thomas Franco, former general secretary of All India Bank Officers’ Confederation speaks about the episode.