Re: [IAC#RG] CIC judgment WRT political parties and transparency

AAP is not part of the order. It will be difficult for the 6 parties to wriggle out of this. This is significant and should be welcomed by IAC irrespective of who has filed the petition. The next step should be NGOs since donors are exempted from income tax under Sec 80G, where applicable. Pavan Nair

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

Consider this

1) All 3 ICS on that CIC bench are due to retire shortly and this
(badly reasoned) order has been given to suit the Govt.

2) This is a collusive effort between parties like AAP, Cong and BJP
etc to see that RTI does NOT apply to them. The Delhi High Court will
promptly grant the parties an ex-parte stay and for 10 years nothing
will result.

3) Subhash Chandra Agrawal (as I have said before and to his face - we
discuss these things as we have different approaches) is also an RTI
taxi for Prashant Bhushan. Now if AAP can get even 5% votes in Delhi
elections they will be alloted a huge piece of land at institutional
rates to shut them up.

4) This is exactly the same modus operandi earlier used by Prashant
Bhushan (agaon with Agarwal as RTI taxi) to get judiciary taken out of
RTI. If they were genuine they should file  caveats in the High Court
as well as SC to ward off ex-parte stays.

On 6/3/13, pavan nair <pavannair1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed. Why should donors to political parties get tax exemption? Even if
> they do not, they, I mean the political parties should be under RTI. We
> also need to consider public funding of elections which would automatically
> get them under RTI. Cannot understand why they are are considered
> equivalent to public charities and trusts. Pavan Nair
>
> On 3 Jun 2013 22:44, "Vidyut Kale" <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am still reading this, but I thought it would be of interest to us.
>
> http://www.rti.india.gov.in/cic_decisions/CIC_SM_C_2011_000838_M_111223.pdf
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