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Netaji files declassification: RTI activist Subhash Agrawal not allowed at the event

The RTI activist said PMO failed to honour CIC-verdict to keep RTI petitioner updated about declassification of files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

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The Prime Minister's Office has refused to allow noted RTI activist Subhash Agrawal to attend the function where files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be declassified on January 23, citing "constraint of space".

Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma had issued the order on December 1 last year, his last day in office, directing the PMO to inform Agrawal about "the decision taken on the question of declassification of the files within one month of the decision taken." Agrawal had sent an emailed request expressing the desire to attend the event.

"It is informed that your request was considered and it is regretted that the same cannot be accommodated due to capacity constraints of the venue. You may, however, visit the exhibition to be held subsequently after the day of inaugural event," the PMO told Agrawal in response to his request.

Agrawal said, "It would have been better if PMO had exhibited its dedication for Transparency Act by accepting a simple request of the concerned RTI Activist having contested through RTI petition for the great cause which was resisted by PMO, but accepted by none other than the Prime Minister himself."

He said PMO failed to honour CIC-verdict to keep RTI petitioner updated about declassification of files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. 

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