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In a radical ruling, the chief information commissioner has decided that political parties should be open to scrutiny under the right to information. Six national parties have been asked to appoint officers to handle requests, and proactively share information about their finances and voluntary contributions, including donor information. The logic is that parties get public land and offices, they get airtime on AIR and Doordarshan, as well as tax exemptions, and are therefore obliged to disclose their internal workings. While the idea is certain to go down well with many who consider parties as inevitably and intrinsically corrupt and corrupting, beholden to powerful special interests, and in urgent need of technical fixes or moral correctives, it is also deeply unwise.
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