-Dainik Bhaskar New Delhi: Normally it is considered that prominent netas of Political Parties have a birth right at a seat in the parliament as they are given tickets from party bastion to ensure that they win the elections. For examples when Rahul Gandhi forayed into politics, he was given ticket in Amethi which is like a Congress fortress, un-breachable by any other political unit. Some don't even have to fight...
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For more aware citizens, more accountable parties -Shailesh Gandhi
-The Indian Express Should Political Parties be brought under the RTI? Two former central information commissioners debate On reading The Indian Express editorial ('Party police', June 5) and Pratap Bhanu Mehta's article ('Party fixing', IE, June 6) about the CIC order declaring that six Political Parties are public authorities, I felt they had missed a crucial point. The decision of the commission has been based on the RTI Act. The act states...
More »Arsenic poisoning water in North Karnataka: CAG -Sunitha Rao R
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Safe drinking water for all is a common promise in the manifestos of all Political Parties. Yet, villagers in North Karnataka are drinking water with high arsenic content, said a Comptroller and Auditor General report released on Thursday. Though the National Rural Drinking Water Mission looked into the issue, it made a conscious effort to keep itself away from the high-cost treatment technologies to deal with arsenic...
More »Politics in the time of sunshine -Ruchi Gupta
-The Hindu While the legitimacy of Political Parties depends on their acceptance of financial transparency under the RTI Act, their internal decision-making processes should be left alone The Central Information Commission (CIC) decision declaring Political Parties as public authorities under the Right to Information Act has again pit the political class against the people. Political Parties have increasingly lost legitimacy due to opaque financing, cultivation of individuals with a criminal background, subversion of...
More »SP in favour of parties coming under RTI -Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Breaking ranks with the other parties, the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said it favoured a mechanism of checks and balances for transparency in the functioning of the Political Parties. The SP was referring to the June 3, 2013, ruling of the chief information commissioner (CIC) that says Political Parties come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Almost all national parties have opposed the CIC ruling. National...
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