Centre Tells Schoolgirl, It Has No Info About When And How Mahatma
Gandhi Became Father Of The Nation
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Lucknow, Apr 3: The Centre has told a ten-year-old schoolgirl
Aishwarya Parashar that it has no specific information about when
Mahatma Gandhi was accorded the title of Father of the Nation
(Rashtrapita).
Aishwarya, a student of class 6 in Lucknow, had sought the information
under the Right to Information Act.
She first sent her RTI application on February 13 to the Prime
Minister's Office this year, reports the Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar.
The PMO had no information on the subject, and it forwarded it to the
Ministry of Home Affairs,
The Ministry of Home Affairs while stating that it was a subject
"outside its jurisdiction" forwarded the RTI application to National
Archives of India
Finally, the Chief Information Officer of National Archives of India
Jayaprabha Raveendran in a letter to Aishwarya told her that "we have
no specific information that you have sought", meaning that the
central government has no documents to suggest that Mahatma Gandhi was
indeed accorded the title of Father of the Nation.
Aishwarya's question was simple: "When and how did Mahatma Gandhi
become the Father of the Nation? "
On Monday, Aishwarya said she would write to the President and the
Prime Minister to get a satisfactory reply.
She wanted to know why the nation does not have any document on this
score, since it was a matter of national interest.
"I will not sit silent so long as I do not get a satisfactory reply",
the schoolgirl says.
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