Six national parties had been brought under the ambit of the transparency law and they had strongly opposed it.

After evolving a consensus among various political parties, the Cabinet today decided to amend the Right to Information Act in order to keep political parties out of the legislation's ambit.

The Cabinet today has decided to amend the RTI Act in order to keep political parties out of its ambit, reported CNN-IBN.

The Central Information Commission had ruled that six national political parties came under the ambit of the transparency law as they were public institutions, on account of getting concessions from the state.

The six parties had been told to create a mechanism to handle RTI queries by 15 July but the directive was ignored by all the political parties. RTI activists had also written to the Prime Minister to keep political parties under the ambit of the act.