Trying to create a shield

The Right to Information Act will apply to political elite also, but a bill has been tabled to exclude political parties from investigations of RTI. The RTI amendment bill proposes to exclude political parties from the transparency law(RTI) Such kind of immunity from RTI will give the political parties a shield to protect themselves. That is they will continue to be non-transparent and indulge in wrong practices. We make laws and also by-laws to evade laws! This would also nullify Central Information Commission. The reason given for evade RTI is that political rivals would misuse provisions of RTI. But that is not going to happen as politicking will have new rules compatible to the new political climate which will emerge with RTI. If political parties are excluded from the ambit of RTI, they will get away with graft, bribe and accumulating wealth by wrong ways. The passing or not passing this bill will make a very big difference in the way we elect our leaders.