In June 2019, an RTI activist M Sreenivas, 44, was killed by unidentified person in Vishakhapatam. Sanjay Dubey was killed in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar in May, and these two are among the 84 RTI activists who have lost their lives because they had used the Right to Information (RTI) to unearth to wrongdoings of the powerful who don’t want to their deeds to come out in open.
With the government passing the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha within three days of its introduction, the speculation of opposition, RTI activists and people in general that the Amendment Bill would weaken the RTI which is probably the most empower the citizens of India have in their hand to fight corruption is gathering momentum.
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