Dharmadhikari seeks information from CM

PUNE, March 31: Making a fervent appeal to Chief Minister Narayan Rane to release information on six issues from ten per cent quota flats to Enron, bureaucrat-turned-social activist Avinash Dharmadhikari, currently spearheading the movement against the abrupt transfer of Arun Bhatia, has warned that he would launch a satyagraha from April 5 if the Government did failed to make a clean breast of it. In a letter sent to Rane, Dharmadhikari has maintained that he was seeking the information under the right to information. He said he would deliberately seek the release of the documents to break the Official Secrets Act. Dharmadhikari has said the activists of Punekar Nagrik Kriti Samiti would stage `thiyya’ in front of the offices from where they expect to get the information.

He requested Rane to reinstate Bhatia to `honour public sentiments’. He has also demanded that the government should table the bill on `right to information’ in the current budget session and should undertake special drive against illegal constructions all over the State. He has urged Rane to chalk out an objective policy on the transfers of the government officials.

The six issues, on which Dharmadhikari has sought the information are the release of the list of persons, who have obtained flats from Chief Minister’s discretionary quota since 1976; list of plots acquired under Urban Land Cieling Act but have been distributed; list of all the encroachments and illegal constructions in urban areas; how much land had been distributed to dalits and adivasis, nexus between politicians-bureaucrats and criminals and the new agreement with Enron company.