RTI activists in UP to play flute in front of a buffalo to register protest

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RTI activists in UP to play flute in front of a buffalo to register protest
Ram Prakash
31 March, 2013


RTI activists in Uttar Pradesh, under the aegis of Yaishwaryaj Seva
Sansthan Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh Campaign to Protect RTI (UPCPRI)
will demonstrate on Monday, 1 April 2013 from 11am to 3pm at DHARNA
Sthal, opposite Vidhaan Sabha in Lucknow.

Briefing about the programme, Urvashi Sharma, Secretary of Yaishwaryaj
Seva Sansthan and Founder Coordinator of UPCPRI said RTI activists
would hold symbolic demonstration by "Playing Snake-Charmer's flute
before buffalo" and "Offering milk to Snakes".

"The buffalo symbolizes the state government and UPSIC, the flute the
RTI Act, the flute-player the RTI user, the snake the public servant
and the milk the salary public servants draw. Our dharna is based on
two Hindi Idioms "BHAINS KE AAGE BEEN BAJANA" and "SAANPON KO DOODH
PILANA"," Sharma said.

She added that RTI Act in Uttar Pradesh was useless and bore no
results just like playing flute into ears of a buffalo. "This is due
to lackluster attitude of the state government and UPSIC towards
effective implementation of RTI Act."

"We may offer milk to a snake but owing to its nature it shall not
hesitate to bite us and inject its venom into our body; today's public
servants are like poisonous snakes who though feeding on public money,
are leaving no stone unturned to harass their masters that is the
public," added Sharma.

She appealed to RTI users of the state to assemble at DHARNA Sthal to
strengthen the RTI movement in Uttar Pradesh.