New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday expressed solidarity with IDBI Bank employees as he questioned the government's decision to sell its majority stake in the lender and transfer management control to a Canadian company.

In a letter posted on X, the Congress leader said a group of IDBI Bank employees had met him in the Parliament complex in March last year and asked why the "government is selling a bank that they had made profitable".

"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," Gand...