Centre has informed Supreme Court that political parties should not be brought under the ambit of Right to Information, RTI Act by terming them public authorities. In an affidavit, Department of Personnel and Training said that bringing political parties under the RTI will not only hamper their smooth working but help political rivals to file pleas with malicious intention to seek information. <br/><br/>The government said, when the RTI Act was enacted, it was never visualised that politicial parties would be brought within the ambit of the transparency law. The affidavit said, there are provisions in Representation of the People Act 1951 and Income Tax Act which brought necessary transparency about the financial aspects of a political party. Government's affidavit came in response to a notice issued to it on a plea to declare all national and regional political parties public authorities to bring them under the ambit of RTI Act.<br/><br/>