Privacy or secrecy: Where was the biggest advocate of transparency?

New Delhi: People of this great nation will be highly thankful to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi if he very kindly in larger public interest reveals details of his recently concluded long sabbatical leave for various important reasons. Firstly any such revelation will put an end to various types of gossips many of which may be untrue.

Secondly but more importantly, affording people will get knowledge about a suitable place where meditation or vipaasana can be done for self-purification. If others can benefit from experience of Rahul Gandhi, then definitely it can serve a larger public interest for which all those in public life have a duty.

Otherwise also, those in public life have definitely a restricted private life and cannot hide their secret absence in name of right to privacy. Rahul Gandhi has always claimed his party for being the biggest champion of gifting nation transparency in form of ‘Right To Information (RTI) Act’.

Hiding his sanctioned sabbatical leave under wrongly claimed cover of privacy makes case fit for having political parties under purview of RTI Act so that RTI petitions may have to be responded by Congress with material on record about much-talked about sabbatical leave of new-generation Vice President of country’s second largest political party.