BJP, which used RTI against the Congress regime, now looks terrified of it | The Indian Express

BJP, which used RTI against the Congress regime, now looks terrified of it | The Indian Express

Written by Manish Sisodia |Updated: July 26, 2019 7:28:09 am

The writer is an AAP leader and deputy chief minister of Delhi

BJP, which used RTI against the Congress regime, now looks terrified of it

The measure of progress of any democracy is the level of empowerment of ordinary citizens. When the state seeks to take away power from ordinary citizens, it is at the cost of democracy itself.

Even a corrupt UPA regime deserves credit for introducing RTI in the first place.

In 2003, three years after Arvind Kejriwal, now the chief minister of Delhi, launched Parivartan to help citizens get access to services without having to pay bribes, a spark was lit in a jhuggi of Sundar Nagri. Nannu, a daily wage worker, had lost his ration card. Despite applying for a fresh copy with the Food and Supplies department, there was no movement on his application for six months. I had joined Kejriwal’s organisation around that time.