Published On: 27th July, 2019 | Duration: 18 min, 05 sec

Participating in the debate on the RTI amendment bill in the Rajya Sabha on 25th July 2019, Jairam Ramesh said that there were five instances where the RTI Act had been used to expose the NDA government which prompted the Centre to bring in the bill to try and make the Central Information and State Information Commissions subservient to it.

The excerpts of the speech by Congress MP Shri Jairam Ramesh in the Rajya Sabha can be accessed from the URL http://www.im4change.org/latest-news-updates/certain-amendments-to-rti-act-ordered-to-make-cic-toothless-jairam-ramesh-4687672.html