Satyagraha for Bhatia planned

PUNE, MARCH 31: Bureaucrat-turned-social activist Avinash Dharmadhikari has demanded form Chief Minister Narayan Rane information on vari...

PUNE, MARCH 31: Bureaucrat-turned-social activist Avinash Dharmadhikari has demanded form Chief Minister Narayan Rane information on various burning issues dogging the State administration. Dharmadhikari is currently spearheading the agitation against the transfer of Arun Bhatia and 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 expected to get the information.

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He requested Rane to reinstate Bhatia to `honour public sentiments’. He has also demanded that the Government table the bill on `right to information’ in the current budget session and 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.

Dharmadhikari has sought the information on 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 Ceiling Act but have been distributed; details of the encroachments and illegal constructions in urban areas; land that has been distributed to Dalits and adivasis among other things.

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