On May 28, we have posted how Modi Govt. started it’s first cabinet meeting with a lie. An RTI response to one filed by activist Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu confirmed the story that the Govt. indeed lied about the business conducted in the 1st cabinet meeting of Modi Government with regard to the Polavaram Ordinance. A RTI application was filed with the Cabinet Secretariat asking for a copy of the agenda of the Cabinet Meeting on the 27th and the 29th. The reply from the cabinet secretariat clearly shows that the polavaram ordinance (amendment to the AP Reorganization act) was indeed part of the cabinet agenda (Number 4 in the agenda) and that it was discussed.  Yet law minister Ravi Shankar ...

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