While agreeing that the information officer made a mistake on electoral bonds sales data, the bank has said it won’t give information on donors and recipient political parties under the RTI. In June 2018, the State Bank of India (SBI) refused to disclose information about the buyers of electoral bonds (EBs) and the political parties […]
When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for “acting rightly”, is the government “acting rightly” by not doing enough to safeguard them? Yet another Right to Information (RTI) activist in Gujarat has paid with his life for demanding transparency. On March 9, Nanjibhai Sondarva (35), a resident of Manekvada village in Kotda Sangani taluka of Rajkot district, was […]
For the government to truly fight black money and ensure complete transparency in political funding, the ambit of the Right to Information Act must be expanded to include political parties. The political funding reforms proposed in the Union Budget by the finance minister are a smokescreen designed to evade the real issue of bringing complete transparency in […]