Keep Prime Minister, ministers' letters out of RTI law

Letters exchanged between the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues are written in confidence based on mutual trust and should not be made public under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the government's top law officer has advised. There have been growing demands within the government to amend the RTI Act, though top functionaries have denied any such move to keep communication between the PM and his cabinet colleagues inaccessible to the public. 

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