New Delhi: Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption (IAC) accused Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Admi Party (AAP) on Wednesday of disabling its mailing list for which they earlier blamed hackers affiliated to the government.
It is orchestrated by Team Arvind because we recently circulated some messages about Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers beating a cop to death. We also circulated another message about Kiran Bedi and us terminating her from IAC primary membership at her request, IAC national cyber media coordinator Ajay Dixit said.
India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal was on Sunday night elected as the National Convenor of his newly-formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and said he will tour the country for the next one year to expose the Congress and the BJP while trying to convince people on why they should support his outfit.
As the party works to gather support, here is an interview with parents Geeta Devi and GR Kejriwal.
Q: How was Arvind as a child?
Geeta Devi: He was very studious. We never had to run after him with a stick asking him to study. I remember when he was in class 5 or 6 in a school in Ghaziabad. I went to receive him from the school bus when one of his classmates told me that he had been weeping whole of that day. I thought he had an altercation. It turned out that he had scored a mark less in a subject.
G R Kejriwal: Ours was a typical middle class family. Whenever we had guests visiting us and Arvind had to study, he would go to the roof or lock himself in the bathroom.
Q: In terms of career, what were your expectations from him?
Geeta Devi: We never forced anything on him and allowed him to follow his heart. We trust his decisions.
G R Kejriwal: In those days, medicine and engineering were the only career options one could think of. We were no different. In fact Arvind's babaji (grand father) kept aside a piece of land in Hisar on which he thought Arvind would open a clinic. But he had other plans.
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) founder Anna Hazare, who parted ways with activist Arvind Kejriwal in September, Saturday laid claim to the name IAC.
The movement was launched October 2010. Arvind, who was earlier a member, had left us two months back, Hazare said at a press conference at Maharashtra Sadan.
The movement of India Against Corruption was launched by me to fight corruption, Hazare told reporters here.
Kejriwal said he would not use the IAC's name in his fight against corruption.
Mumbai: Scores of activists of Arvind Kejriwal's India Against Corruption (IAC) were today briefly detained by police while staging a protest outside the family home of the Ambani brothers here to demand a probe into alleged parking of black money by them in a Swiss bank.
A few IAC activists also held a protest at headquarters of the HSBC, which has been accused by Kejriwal of engaging in money laundering, a charge which has been denied by Britain's largest institutional bank.
New Delhi: After taking on politicians and businessmen, India Against Corruption will now target the judiciary, Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday.
He said several high profile cases were dragging on in the courts for several years without any decisive outcome.
Asked by a television channel why he doesn't move courts with his charges, Kejriwal said this is what the Government wants so that it can manage things there.
He said IAC activist and lawyer Prashant Bhushan will address the media on the issue of judiciary.
Mumbai: Reliance Industries and Jet Airways , two of India's biggest companies, denied allegations from anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal who accused executives of holding undeclared Swiss bank accounts.
Kejriwal from India Against Corruption on Friday said Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and his brother Anil held the accounts in a branch of UK-based HSBC in Geneva.
He also accused Naresh Goyal, the chairman of Jet Airways of holding black money accounts, a term widely used in India to describe funds meant to avoid taxes.
Kejriwal and his IAG group have already gained publicity after accusing the ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law of improper deals with property developer DLF. All involved have denied the allegations.
Neither Reliance Industries Limited nor Mr Mukesh Ambani have or had any illegitimate accounts anywhere in the world, the energy conglomerate said on Friday in response to Kejriwal's latest claim.
