Ouch, that sunlight really hurts!

Given how the government has been exposed with each new revelation in the 2G scam, it’s not surprising that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should want to ‘take a critical look’ at the Right to Information (RTI) Act—it was through the RTI, for instance, that the finance ministry’s ‘office memorandum’ on the actions/inactions of the previous finance minister were brought to light. And though finance minister Pranab Mukherjee publicly distanced himself from the ‘inferences and interpretations’, he never dismissed the facts in the ‘office memorandum’, which is why the focus on the memo continues.

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