Tharoor’s clear sign: Rahul is the new boss, Congress fears Modi

Just two days after Rahul Gandhi was reported not to be in sync with his party again supposedly in favour of partially bringing political parties under RTI, MoS for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor too spoke about it today.

“Political parties are the lifelines of our democracy. So, in my personal view, there is nothing wrong in bringing them under the RTI Act. The more transparent we are, the more we can gain the trust of people,” he said at a seminar in Thiruvananthapuram.

With Left trying to sabotage the Oommen Chandy’s mass contact programme and have creating troubles for the Congress in the past too, Tharoor hose the platform to take a dig on them too. He sought to know why Left leaders were opposed to political parties being brought under the purview of RTI when they claimed that all their activities were transparent.

Maybe he was trying a balancing act as he held his party’s view high subtly. He said he had held discussions with many of his fellow Members of Parliament who had told him that the kind of information that could legitimately be sought under RTI Act could also be got from Election Commission.

Quoting a recent survey, he said democracy itself was in a dangerous position and the number of people who preferred a dictatorship were on the rise in society.

But legislation like RTI Act could make a change in that perception, he said, adding that, “bringing political parties under RTI can bring more transparency into the system”.

Well there are no awards for thinking who and what trends he was pointing towards. This has only strengthens the belief that the Congress party is under a great fear from BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

Maybe the whole different-from-party attitude that Rahul is keeping up, needs to be checked by the old party whose comrades are failing it constantly.