Making political parties accountable

Recently, the full bench of the Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled that six national political parties of India will be deemed to be public authorities. These six are the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. The CIC verdict means that these parties will now be subject to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005.

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