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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI activists detained on way to deliver petition to President

RTI activists detained on way to deliver petition to President

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published Published on Aug 2, 2019   modified Modified on Aug 2, 2019
-The Hindu

Protesters launch mass RTI campaign, raise questions on controversial issues

New Delhi:
Right to Information activists attempting to deliver a petition against the RTI Amendments Bill to the President via his Secretariat were detained outside Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday.

Later, they launched a new campaign to bombard the government with a mass RTI campaign raising queries on prickly issues of public interest, from the Unnao rape case and the Rafale defence deal to alleged discrepancies in tax revenue data and the impact of Aadhaar.

No permission

The city police said a total of 59 persons were detained, including 45 women and 14 men. “The group did not have any permission. They were detained at Mandir Marg police station for an hour and then were released,” a police spokesperson said.

According to the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), the police detained 66 activists gathered outside Gate No. 38 of Rashtrapati Bhavan which has a facility for accepting memorandums from the public. Three of them were later allowed to submit their plea, urging President Ram Nath Kovind not to sign the Bill passed by Parliament last week.

‘Attack on rights’

“This is an absolute attack on our democratic rights to free speech and expression,” said Anjali Bhardwaj, NCPRI co-convener who was among those detained by the police. “There were no slogans, no banners, no posters. It was simply a group of citizens who brought their own signed petitions to the President of the country. If we cannot even do that, it is a joke to call this a democracy,” she said.

The petition to the President had almost two lakh signatures, including 1.27 lakh people who joined an online campaign on the Change.org platform.

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The Hindu, 2 August, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/rti-activists-detained-on-way-to-deliver-petition-to-president/article28790418.ece?homepage=true


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