{"id":66549,"date":"2019-07-24T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=66549"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:50:35","slug":"modi-regime-hell-bent-on-subverting-rti-act-sonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/modi-regime-hell-bent-on-subverting-rti-act-sonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi regime hell-bent on subverting RTI Act: Sonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi alleged on Tuesday that the Modi government was &#8220;hell-bent on completely subverting&#8221; the RTI Act and wanted to &#8220;destroy&#8221; the independence of the Central Information Commission, a day after Lok Sabha passed amendments to the Act amid strong Opposition protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the law, prepared after widespread consultations and passed unanimously by Parliament, now stands at the &#8220;brink of extinction&#8221;. It is clear that the present central government sees the RTI Act as a &#8220;nuisance&#8221; and wants to destroy the status and independence of the Central Information Commission, Gandhi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi said, &#8220;Over the past decade and more, 60 lakh of our countrymen and women have used RTI and helped usher in a new culture of transparency and accountability (in) administration at all levels.&#8221; The foundations of India&#8217;s democracy have, as a result, been strengthened immeasurably, she said.The weaker sections have benefited greatly by the proactive use of RTI by activists and others, Gandhi said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi alleged on Tuesday that the Modi government was &#8220;hell-bent on completely subverting&#8221; the RTI Act and wanted to &#8220;destroy&#8221; the independence of the Central Information Commission, a day after Lok Sabha passed amendments to the Act amid strong Opposition protests. She said the law, prepared after widespread consultations and passed unanimously [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66551,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66549\/revisions\/66551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}