Anna Hajare should once again go on fast. Here is a classical reason for this. The near fatal assault on RTI activist from Lonawala Arun Mane and the murder of five others over last one year or so.
Though Mane later withdrew his complaint and filed an affidavit saying that it was a fake attack and he had lost mental balance, it does not end the matter. In my opinion, Mane must be under tremendous pressure from the people he was fighting against which forced him to withdraw the complaint. The reason, why I think so is that Mane and his friend Suresh Shetty, who was murdered some months back, had sought some information about land deals involving a corporate house close to Nationalist Congress Party leadership. So, it is quite possible that the party which holds the Home ministry and controls the police force of entire state must have found its friends in serious trouble due the information sought by the RTI activists.
Given the track record of NCP leadership, there are all possibilities of involvement of top leaders in misappropriations in the deals on which Shetty and Mane had sought information about. The situation in the state during the regimen of RR Patil as home minister has been going from bad to worse. Every other crime is committed by NCP men. Let it be murder of Pavanraje Nimbalkar, where a NCP leader had allegedly reached the spot even before local police, or rape and subsequent murder of a married lady near Hinjwadi in Pune or the alleged rape and robbery of a class one lady officer on Pune – Ahmadnagar road. In all these cases, NCP has found its way to the culprits.
Are we heading the UP or Bihar way??
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Not just RTI activists but even journalists are not spared in this country, where 'freedom of speech' is often misconstrued. While covering the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), I recently learnt of a unwritten rule prohibiting employees from speaking to medispersons. Any staffer suspected of speaking to a mediaperson is sent notesheets and memos. Reporters are dragged in to ugly spats, sprinkled with political masala. I am forced to ask - are we going the Pakistan way where there is a gag on freedom of press?
don't say like Bihar... situation is improving there.... I would like to mention one thing regarding RTI During every PIC i.e.Public Information Campaign of central govt which is being conducted in every district,there is one common program of creating awareness amongst people about RTI.especially in rural areas... that is all fuss,like typical sarkari program..but guanine RTI activists should use that mob and platform to create awareness in people that how govt itself is pressuring RTI activists and all...
your article is good !!
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