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Tripura Pradesh Congress President Ashish Kumar Saha connected Sunday accused the State and Union governments of violating the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which was implemented connected October 12, 2005, astatine the “initiative of erstwhile Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress person Sonia Gandhi”.
Mr. Saha told presspersons that the BJP authorities has progressively restricted citizens’ entree to accusation implicit the past 11 years and besides undermined the effectiveness of Right to Information Commissions astatine the State level. He highlighted that implicit 2,05,000 RTI applications person been submitted nationwide, with astir 33,000 poised for ineligible action, but determination is simply a systematic ploy to obstruct them.
He alleged that some the Central and State governments are depriving the citizens of their rights by delaying the effect to RTI requests. He further mentioned incidents wherein RTI applicants faced attacks.
He urged the radical to dependable their discontent against the government’s infringement connected the RTI Act and its legality.
