Why to exempt political parties from RTI..... Social activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey on Saturday opposed the Union Government’s move to amend the Right to Information Act to exempt political parties from the purview of the statute, negating a recent order of the Chief Information Commission that had declared six political parties to be public authorities under the law. Addressing a press conference under the banner of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information here, the two activists said the amendment would weaken the drive for bringing probity in public life and raise doubts about the sources of funding for political parties. “Instead of bringing transparency to the issue of funding, the Amendment Bill likely to be introduced in the monsoon session of Lok Sabha will reinforce our suspicion that the [political] establishment is keen to cover arbitrary use of power,” said Ms.Roy. She said the people’s right to know about the sources of funding was “non-negotiable”.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:22:26 +0000
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