# Public banks not assets to be sold off, they are tools to build nation: Rahul amid IDBI bank sale row — retained record

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‘I took that question to the Lok Sabha. I asked why a profitable public bank was being sold and how its employees and depositors would be protected. The government gave no reason. Now it has decided to sell IDBI Bank to Fairfax, a Canadian company,’ says Rahul Gandhi
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