CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION
August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi 110066
File No. CIC/SM/C/2011/001386
File No. CIC/SM/C/2011/000838
Complainants:
1. Shri Subhash Chandra Aggarwal
2. Shri Anil Bairwal
Respondents:
1. Indian National Congress/ All India Congress Committee (AICC);
2. Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP);
3. Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM);
4. Communist Party of India(CPI);
5. Nationalist Congress Party(NCP); and
6. Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)
Dates of hearing: 26th September & 1st November, 2012.
Date of Decision: 3rd June 2013
Facts:
Complainant Subhash Chandra Agrawal (Shri S.C.Agrawal) has filed Complaint No. CIC/SM/C/2011/001386 and Complainant Shri Anil Bairwal, Complaint No. CIC/SM/C/2011/000838. In both the complaints, the common issue relating to the disclosure of the accounts and funding of Political Parties has been raised. Hence, it has been decided to dispose of these matters through a common order. File No. CIC/SM/C/001386:
2. By his RTI application dated 16.5.2011, complainant S.C. Aggarwal has sought the following information from the Presidents/Secretaries of the Indian National Congress (INC/AICC) and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP):
"1. Copies of Election Menifestoes by BJP for Lok Sabha elections in the years it formed NDA govenment with Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister.
2. Were all the promises made in these e