NSF protests against Govt for rendering SIC defunct

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: Accusing the Coalition Government of rendering the SIC completely defunct, NSF activists today held a protest against the subversion of RTI Act in the Jammu and Kashmir State.
Led by Dr Vikas Sharma, State president NSF, raised slogans against the Coalition Government and demanded immediate appointment of the SIC members as well as its Chairman.
Lambasting the State Government’s casual attitude towards the SIC that  led to its redundancy,  Dr Vikas Sharma alleged  that the Ministers and MLAs,  particularly those of BJP,  were in notion that  the transparency was good for others only and they should  be left free and unquestioned.   BJP’s resistance to RTI Act  an be gauged from the fact that one of the BJP MLAs moved a bill in the previous session of Assembly for the amendment of J&K RTI Act and alleged misuse of the Act by the so called “unscrupulous elements”.