India Right To Information

With Lok Sabha elections in the city just around the corner, the question of whether MPs can fight shy of local issues has again come to the fore. Praja, an NGO, has brought out a white paper on the pressing issues in each constituency, which range from education to crime, civic complaints to diseases. The information, obtained through the RTI, pertains to 2008. I don't buy the argument that local issues are not the responsibility of an MP. When hundreds and millions of people are miserable in a constituency, there is no way an MP can ignore their condition.

Complete Article