Political Parties in India do not want to be come under the RTI Act

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The cabinet on Thursday gave its nod to keep political parties out of the RTI Act by approving changes in the law to overturn the central information panel’s ruling on the issue.The proposed amendment, to be placed before Parliament on Monday, states that the definition of public authority “shall not include any political party registered under the Representation of People’s Act and no litigation related to this shall be entertained by any court of law.”
“Declaring political parties as public authorities under the Right to Information Act would hamper their smooth internal functioning since it will encourage political rivals to file RTI applications with malicious intentions,” stated the government’s note seeking an amendment in the law.
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On Monday, we took our petition and all the signatures to the Prime Minister and this is what he said - “there is unanimity across all political parties on amending the RTI law to remove political parties from the purview of the RTI Act”.This is unacceptable. Political parties are united in amending the RTI Act. As voters, we give political parties the power and we need to remind them that we are against this amendment. It will be completely undemocratic to pass it without much wider public consultation.
We urged the Prime Minister to recommend the issue to a parliamentary standing committee for further consultation. We just have a few hours left and we need to make our voice heard more than ever.
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Political Parties Cannot Be Brought Under RTI, Centre Tells Supreme Court

How cute.

In an affidavit in response to a petition, the government has argued that political parties are not "public authorities" as they are not set up under the Constitution or any law enacted by Parliament - they can't be treated as an institution or establishment.

"If political parties come under the RTI it will affect their smooth internal functioning. Political rivals will file RTI applications with malicious intent ," the government says.
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National parties under RTI Act: Election Commission clarifies | The Indian Express

The Election Commission on Monday said national parties are public authorities under the RTI Act as declared by the Central Information Commission, a day after the poll panel’s appeal order on an RTI application saying “political parties are out of the purview of RTI Act” was reported.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Election Commission of India clarified that it goes by the CIC order of 3rd June, 2013 that declared national parties as public authorities for the purposes of RTI Act.

In pursuance of this, the CIC order had said, all the information about the contributions received by these parties as well as their annual audited accounts, as and when submitted to the Commission, are put in public domain. The appeal order had come on an RTI applicant Vihar Dhurve who had sought details of donations, through electoral bonds, collected by the six national parties declared as public authorities under the RTI Act by the CIC — Congress, BJP, NCP, BSP, CPM and CPI.
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