Re: PRESS RELEASE: Mumbai RTI Activist files complaint with Election Commission based on DoPT reply

[Janhit Manch]

Congrats to girish. Unfortunately most of RTI activists merely rejoice their exposures.  At least 50% of Janhit Manchs RTI applications result in PILs. Why others should not do that?
Bhagvanji Raiyani
President, Janhit Manch

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Krishnaraj Rao <sahasip...@gmail.com> wrote:

Mumbai, March 7: Armed with documentary evidence received in several installments from DoPT, Mumbai RTI Activist Girish Mittal filed a formal complaint with Chief Central Election Commissioner Navin Kumar for breach of Model Code of Conduct during the Lok Sabha Elections held in 2009. The complaint, which was dispatched on Friday along with supporting documents, alleges that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Union Law Minister H R Bhardwaj, Minister of State Prithviraj Chauhan and many others knowingly carried out the entire process of proposing, selecting, appointing and swearing-in Ms Omita Paul as Information Commissioner at the time when the Code of Conduct was in force.

 

And it wasn’t only the politicians. “Many highly placed officials belonging to PMO, DoPT, Law Ministry and Rashtrapati Bhavan facilitated the above wrongdoing on an ongoing basis during the period of the Code of Conduct,” alleges Mittal.

 

Magsaysay-award winner Arvind Kejriwal inspected the files at DoPT on 25th January 2010 and unearthed many documents that were denied to Mittal. The complaint to the election commissioner is based on both these sets of RTI documents, meticulously collected over a 6-month period.

 

PRESS KIT:

Full text of complaint letter: http://www.box.net/shared/13lfm7il7h

 

Supporting documents sent (with added footnotes): http://www.box.net/shared/nt0n6p0vif

 

Girish Mittal’s mobile: 9323462428  Email:  mittalgirish @ gmail.com

 

Warm Regards,

Krish

98215 88114

 

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[Krishnaraj Rao]

Agreed, Bhagwanjibhai. We should take action based on our exposures. I think most of us are put off by the long-term commitment of time and money that is required in a PIL.

Warmly,
Krish