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All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput Deepa Das Munshi connected Sunday accused the Modi authorities of subverting the Right to Information Act done (RTI) amendments. Addressing a property league here, she said that the Union authorities has usurped the powerfulness of the Information Commissioners, who had a fixed word of 5 years and guaranteed presumption of service, done an amendment successful 2019.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 expanded the scope of idiosyncratic information. The proviso that idiosyncratic accusation cannot beryllium disclosed adjacent successful the nationalist involvement has destroyed the essence of the law. The Central Information Commission has lone 2 members alternatively of 11 owed to non-filling of vacancies. Even the station of Chief Information Commissioner has been lying vacant since September 2025. The concern is akin successful galore States. About 23,000 cases are pending successful the Central Information Commission. Information astir crores spent connected the Prime Minister’s overseas trips, decease owed to oxygen shortage during Covid, and usage of the PM Cares Fund were denied, Ms. Munshi alleged.
She alleged that the Kerala authorities has besides taken respective steps to weaken the RTI Act. The State authorities has denied accusation related to the police, specified arsenic custodial deaths, she said.
