Who is Sonia Gandhi to travel abroad on Indian Tax Payers' money?

Govt blank on Sonia travel

New Delhi, Nov. 8 (PTI): An attempt to use RTI to get details of Sonia Gandhi’s trips abroad, including that in August for surgery, came to nought as no government department appeared to have the information to share. Kailash Kanwar of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, filed an application under the RTI Act for details of foreign trips in the past two years by the chairperson of the UPA and the National Advisory Council. The application sent to the external affairs ministry was transferred to the parliamentary affairs ministry and the ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The external affairs ministry said: “The ministry of parliamentary affairs is the concerned department for providing information on foreign visits undertaken by Smt Sonia Gandhi as member of Parliament. “Regarding foreign visits undertaken by Smt Sonia Gandhi as chairperson of the National Advisory Council, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation is the concerned ministry.” The ministry of statistics sent the application to the National Advisory Council, saying it was “not involved….” The NAC said it had “no information” and sent it instead to the Prime Minister’s Office. The PMO in its October 20 reply said: “No information is held… by the office.” The parliamentary affairs ministry said it had “zero information” about Sonia’s tours.