Cabinet clears amendments to the RTI Act to keep political parties out of its ambit

New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday cleared the proposal to keep political parties out of the ambit of the Right to Information Act (RTI). Following the clearance, an ordinance to amend the RTI Act will be prepared to declare that political parties are not public authorities. If the ordinance is passed by Parliament, political parties will no longer be answerable to RTI queries.

The amendments state that declaring political parties as public authorities under the RTI would "hamper their smooth internal functioning since it will encourage political rivals to file RTI applications with malicious intentions".

While most political parties have already given their consent to the proposed amendments, sources said on Thursday that Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily was against them. He reportedly said that it was no time to amend the RTI Act.

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