The Week: Jaipur: Sunday, August 04, 2013.
Social activist
Aruna Roy Saturday said that political parties should come under RTI in order
to maintain transparency in their financial matters and termed as
"unfortunate" any attempt to nullify the CIC order in this regard.
"What
the political parties do financially should be known to people, hence they
should come under RTI," Roy told while addressing a event of her NGO
'Suchna ka Adhikar Manch'.
She said that
it was "unfortunate" that political parties got united in favour of
hiding their information from people.
Activist
Nikhil Dey said that parties should have invited social workers to seek their
opinion on the matter but unfortunately it was not done.
The Union
Cabinet on August one gave its nod to amend the Right to Information Act to
keep political parties out of the ambit of transparency law.
The move
followed the Central Information Commission holding that six national parties
Congress, BJP, NCP, CPI-M, CPI and BSP were substantially funded indirectly by
the Central government and were required to appoint public information officers
as they have the character of a public authority under the RTI Act.
The Right to
Information Act empowers a citizen to seek time-bound information on all
matters of governance by paying a fee of Rs 10
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