---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: NCPRI India <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:04 PM Subject: Press Release 11/2/2014 To: NCPRI India <[email protected]>
Press Release 11/2/2014 Families & colleagues of whistleblowers arrested Today at 4 pm more than 100 relatives and colleagues of whistleblowers were arrested from outside the BJP office. The families, along with NCPRI activists, were demanding that the BJP clarify its stand on the grievance redress bill and whistleblowers protection bill and assure them that the BJP will support the bills in Parliament. The protestors sat outside the BJP office for more than 4 hours demanding that the BJP make a statement. No one from the BJP office spoke to the protestors. The protestors, mostly women, were arrested by the Police. A meeting of Mr. Modi with the BJP MPs was to start at 4:30 pm. The protestors were relatives and colleagues of slain whistleblowers Satyendra Dubey, Shimbu Bishnoi, Ram Thakur and were peacefully sitting outside the BJP office. Activists Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri & Praavita Kashyap of the NCPRI were arrested along with the families of whistleblowers. The families were also simultaneously protesting outside the Congress office. B. K. Hariprasad, MP, addressed the protestors who said that Congress will make every effort to push these bills in Parliament. Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shekhar Singh of the NCPRI strongly condemned the arrest of the families and activists. They said that people protesting peacefully should not have been removed using force. People have been promised by all political parties that these 2 critical bills will be passed in the ongoing session of Parliament. It is a shame that Parliament is not functioning and that people who are demanding answers from political parties are being ill-treated. All political parties need to answer why critical bills are being made scapegoats in the political stand-off in Parliament. For further details contact Amba- 9810273984 -- National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI): Our official email is: [email protected] Our official website is: www.righttoinformation.info If you receive any information regarding NCPRI from any other source please check with us. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NCPRIworkingcommittee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- In service of RTI Bhaskar Prabhu Convenor Mahiti Adhikar Manch & Maharashtra RTI Council Co-Convenor NCPRI 9892102424 "Democracy" is not a spectator sport..! Participate in "Democracy" to enjoy the sport..!
