What About 15 Lakh In Accounts Promised By PM Modi, Asked RTI. The Reply
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 IST
In 2014, before becoming prime minister, Narendra Modi, promised to bring back black money and deposit Rs. 15 lakh to every citizen's bank account.
NEW DELHI: A question under the Right To Information Act regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of depositing Rs. 15 lakh into every citizen's bank account, has drawn a blank from the Prime Minister's Office. The application had asked for the exact date when the money will be deposited. The PM's Office has now responded that this cannot be considered "information" under the rules of the Right To Information Act, reported news agency Press Trust of India.
In 2014, Mr Modi, while campaigning for the Lok Sabha election, promised to bring back black money from abroad to India and deposit Rs. 15 lakh from it to every citizen's bank account. The promise had provided the opposition parties, including the Congress and Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, a huge opportunity to target the government.
Party chief Amit Shah later said it was a "jumla" or election gimmick, which was seen as a self-goal that laid the party open to further ridicule.
The RTI request was filed two years later, on November 26, 2016 -- 18 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ban on Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 notes. Applicant Mohan Kumar Sharma has now said complete information has not been given to him by the Prime Minister's Office and the Reserve Bank of India, reported PTI.
In its reply to Chief Information Commissioner RK Mathur, the PM's Office said the answer sought did not come under the definition of 'information' under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act, PTI reported. The applicant had also sought information on how the print media came to have advance information about the demonetisation, another request that the PMO said does not fall under the ambit of Section 2(f).
According to section 2(f) of the RTI Act, 'information' is described as any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information related to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force.
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