Re: [HumJanenge] CIC poser to BJP, Congress on RTI

I think it absolutely right to bring the parties under rti act since public has all the right to know about source of their funds.

  

From: M.K. Gupta <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in>
To: RTI Act 2005 Hum Janenge Forum People's Right to Information <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012 7:40 PM
Subject: [HumJanenge] CIC poser to BJP, Congress on RTI

CIC poser to BJP, Congress on RTI

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 26, 2012

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First Published: 23:14 IST(26/9/2012)
Last Updated: 23:15 IST(26/9/2012)

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The Central Information Commission (CIC) has given political parties, including the Congress and BJP 10 days to make their submissions on whether they should be declared public authorities under the Right To Information law. The commission decided to issue a notice to other political 

parties only after representatives of the CPI and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) appeared before it on appeals filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and RTI activist Subhash Chandra Aggarwal seeking to bring political parties under the RTI ambit.

Appearing on behalf of appellants, Prashant Bhushan argued that the political parties should be declared public authority under the RTI law as they were receiving substantial government funding through I-T exemption.