There was much argument on bringing political parties under RTI. I agree to that, but sadly none of political parties which preach transparency did not.
All the present media, both paper and electronic, propagate a particular ideology to the people. Of late, they have started cooking stories to make a news and entertain us. According to me, this is more dangerous than corrupt political parties.
Once, we start to build opinions based on unverifiable stories, that's the end of reason. If the reason is gone for a toss, then the assumption that people are sensible individuals capable of apply reason to make decision to some extent, on which concept of democracy is built, becomes false.
A law is important as media stopped educating people but instead started entertaining them like cinemas. The motto is to give people what they want to know, not what they have to know.
Attacks on Reliance stores which followed after few popular Telugu news channels stated a provocative discussion that Reliance industries made sure that Late CM YSR get killed pertaining to krishna-godavari basin. The source being a German website. Before, rest of the media started enlightenment that the source is not reliable, the damage was done.
If not RTI, at least we need an ombudsmen which force media to share the source of the news.
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"There is nothing more toxic to responsible journalism than an anonymous source" అని ఎవరో అన్నట్లు గుర్తు.
అదలా ఉంచితే RTI పరిధిలోకి రాజకీయపార్టీలుకూడా రావాలా అన్నది ఒక చట్టంగా రూపుదిద్దుకోవడం సమంజసం కాదేమో అని నా అభిప్రాయం. ఒకవేళ ఇదే చట్టపరంగా తప్పనిసరిననాడు ప్రైవేతు సంస్థలనూ, మన కుటుంబాలనూ మాత్రం exempt చెయ్యడం ఎందుకట? ఏ బలవంతపు పారదర్శకతకి అంతేది? ఒకవేళ మీరు నాయకులే ఐనట్లైతే నిన్న మీ ఇంట్లో ఎమేమి కూరలు వండారో తెలుసుకొనే అవకాశం చట్టపరంగా నాకు ఎందుకు ఉండకూడదో చెప్పాలి మీరు :)
ఈ డిమాండు ఓటర్లనుంచి రావాలి. ఏ పార్టీ అయితే తమ సమాచారాన్ని ప్రచురించడానికి ఇష్టపడటంలేదో ఆ పార్టీని తిరస్కరించే చైతన్యం ప్రజలకు రావాలేతప్ప ప్రతిదానికీ చట్టాలు మంచిపని కాదేమోనని నా అనుమానం. After all, in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.
i agree. However, its just not democracy , its constitutional democracy. The history of political theory will teach us that, most of the people are over excited dumb idiots who gets carried away by the oratory skills of a politician.
The reality is, businessmen and contractors fund a political party to gain political party. If the party wins , they will get the govt projects, if it loses its cash for questions scam in legislator.
If every political party screams of transparency, anti-corruption then whats wrong in declaring their assets.
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