The president of the Indian National Congress and the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Malliarjun Kharge today came down heavily on the BJP led NDA government accusing it for misusing the Right to Information act by weakening it under the guise of protecting/ preserving the DATA Protection Law.
Kharge categorically warned the BJP government that the Congress party will not let this happen and will organise the protest demonstrations from streets to Parliament to raise this issue.
Accusing the central government led by prime minister Narendra Modi , veteran Congress leader wrote a lengthy protest note on the social media handle X saying :
On the one hand, India has been coming on top in Misinformation and Disinformation for the past few years, on the other hand, the Modi government is bent on weakening the Right To Information (RTI) Act implemented by the Congress-UPA by bringing the Data Protection Law. Whether it is information related to public sector like ration card list, beneficiary labourers of MGNREGA, names of people involved in public welfare schemes, voter list in elections, or the names of scamster billionaires who take loans from government banks and flee abroad – it is important for the names of all these to be available in public domain for the people. But now the Modi government is weakening the RTI in the name of Data Protection, due to which such names will no longer be made public. Right to Privacy is a Fundamental Right and Congress has fought for it, but where it comes to public welfare, Right to Information is necessary. Right to Privacy was also taken care of in Congress’ RTI, but it does not mean that the list of beneficiaries or the names of the fraudsters should not be made public. Warning the government Malliarjun Kharge Said that the Congress party will not allow RTI to weaken, we have raised our voice for it earlier also, and will continue to raise our voice from the road to the Parliament. We will continue to fight against this dictatorial government to protect the rights of the people! Wrote Veteran Congress leader and its chief on X.
He also accused the government about the missing of a massive amount of 455 crore rupees from the flagship programme of the PM saying that it has been revealed by the RTI. The RTI revelations of the Modi government are exposing it through RTI said Kharge writing on social media handle on X in Hindi : RTI has revealed that ₹ 455 crores have “disappeared” from Modi government’s “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” scheme.
Echoes of the BJP advertisement “Enough of attacks on women” have been mocking the cries of all the women for the last 10 years who have been harassed under the BJP rule and sometimes by BJP goons.
Be it the recent rape of a woman in a government bus in Pune, or our daughters of Manipur and Hathras, or the female Olympic champions – there is no trace of women’s safety left under the BJP rule.
We had recently asked three questions to Modi Ji on “Beti Bachao”, one of which was on hiding statistics. Today, the latest revelations of RTI have once again exposed the lies of Modi Government.
