Speaking at the All India Congress Committee Session at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi on January 17, 2014, Congress Vice-President said that the Right to Information Act was the single biggest step that has been taken to place power in the hands of the people. 'The single biggest step that we took, the single biggest attack on the system, is called the RTI,' he said.

'We restored, Information, and the world says Information is power, through the RTI we gave power to the people of this country. We gave them information that was locked up in government offices. We gave you, the power,' he said.

'And let me say something else, which is very important, nobody pressurized us to do the RTI. Nobody told us to do the RTI. The Congress party got up and said the country needs the Right to Information. Every single person in the country needs to know what is going on in this government, and we gave you that,' he said..