New Delhi: Accusing the ruling BJP of “systematically corroding” India's transparency regime that completed 20 years of existence, the Congress on Sunday claimed that RTI means “Readiness to Intimidate\" and not ‘Right to Information’ for the Narendra Modi government.

Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said on 'X' that the UPA government “ushered in a new era of transparency and accountability” by implementing the Right to Information Act but in the last 11 years, Modi government has “systematically corroded” the transparency law and thereby “hollowing out democracy and citizen’s right”. RTI came into being on 12 October, 2005.

He claimed the government “hacked away” at the RTI Act, seizing control over Information Commissioners’ tenure and pay through an amendment in 2019, converting in

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