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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is known to stick to the subject at hand and not get into long discussions. So, when CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta raised a calling attention motion on the merger of banks and started making several ideological points, this made Mukherjee testy.
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The finance minister got up to tell the House, “This is not the occasion to go into the history, philosophy and all other aspects of banking. If the member desires, we can have a separate discussion later.” Congressmen say that when, in the past, Mukherjee was asked to oversee a change in chief ministers in Maharashtra, he went and met the state’s MLAs along with AK Antony.
After he heard a few MLAs, he interrupted to say, “I have not come here to hear the history and geography of Maharashtra. Just tell me in ‘yes’ or ‘no’ whether you want a new chief minister.”