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20 years of RTI Act: Congress hits out at BJP; accuses it of 'systematically corroding' the law | India News - The Times of India

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    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : It grants citizens the right to seek information from public authorities to ensure transparency in governance.
56% : Right to Information Act, 2005, was introduced by the UPA government and came into effect on October 12, 2005.
51% : Listing his concerns, Kharge cited the 2019 amendments to the RTI Act that allowed the Centre to control the tenure and salaries of Information Commissioners.
40% : In a post on X, Kharge wrote: "In the last 11 years, the Modi Govt. has systematically corroded the RTI Act, thereby hollowing out Democracy and citizen's right.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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