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strongNew Delhi:/strong AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's indefinite fast urging people not to pay inflated power and water bills entered the third day but crowds kept away even as he defended the low turnout saying the real work is to reach out to people and not large numbers at the protest venue. Kejriwal said he was in good shape and there is no concern about his health. [caption id=attachment_674712 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong AAP leader
strongNew Delhi:/strong Politician Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday released by a Delhi court on an undertaking after he refused to seek bail in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's political secretary for his remarks during protests on power tariff issue. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate(CMM) Sanjay Bansal released Kejriwal, who had been summoned by the court, on an undertaking that he would appear on every date of hearing after he refused to seek bail and furnish any personal or surety bond. [caption id=attachment_668897 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Politician
Activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal left for Ralegan Siddhi early Monday morning to meet Anna Hazare before the start of his indefinite fast on 23 March. Kejriwal will observe an upvaas in order to position his political party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), as a strong contender in the Delhi assembly elections due later this year. He has said that the objective of the fast will be to unite people on rising water and power tariffs in the national capital. [caption id=attachment_664986 align=alignleft width=380 Activist turned politician Arvind K
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has called for the suspension of the licences of Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank after an expose by emCobraPost/em, an online magazine, which alleged that India's largest private sector banks are conducting services to launder black money by providing a variety of options. Licences of these banks shud be suspended. Anirudh Behl has presented a strong prima facie evidence, he tweeted. [caption id=attachment_660657 align=alignleft width=380 Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejri
Arvind Kejriwal did not replace Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as a speaker at the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF). The Wharton School's invitation to Kejriwal is dated 25 February - seven days before Modi's speech was cancelled at the forum. Since Monday, after Modi's keynote was cancelled due to pressure from a section of students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, there was speculation that the institute approached Aam Aadmi Party convener as a replacement. According to Wharton School's e-invitation, that was accessed by emFirstpost/em, Kejriwal was asked to deliver the keynote in the panel 'government and policy', scheduled between 2.45 pm and 3.45 pm on 23 March. [caption id=attachment_648778 align=alignleft width=380 Arvind Kejriwal did not replace Guj
Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal will deliver a keynote address via video conferencing at the Wharton India Business Summit, emCNN-IBN/em reported. On 4 March, Wharton dropped Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from its list of keynote speakers after a section of students and professors protested over having Modi as a speaker. [caption id=attachment_648111 align=alignleft width=380 Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kej
strongNew Delhi:/strongArvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today said that the union budget 2013-2014 is a clever attempt by the government to mislead public in an election year. In his speech, the finance minister acknowledged key problems facing the Indian economy such as fiscal deficit and slowdown of growth. But the budget does not provide any remedies to these problems, said AAP member Manish Sisodia. [caption id=attachment_644008 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strongArvind Kejri
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has come out strongly against the UPA government over the audiotape which shows alleged collusion between CBI prosecutor and Sanjay Chandra of Unitech, one of the accused in the 2G spectrum case. Kejriwal said that in case AK Singh is found guilty, it should be probed whether he was working on his own or following the orders of his political masters. [caption id=attachment_623569 align=alignleft width=380 Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejri
Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodiya and Prashant Bhushan are expected to appear before a magistrate's court today in connection with defying prohibitory orders while holding protests rallies against the government outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi. [caption id=attachment_613895 align=alignleft width=380 Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejr
Arvind Kejriwal, convenor of the two-month old Aam Admi Party (AAP), is expected to kick-start what appears to be his first big political campaign for the Delhi vote, on Friday. A day after a local court issued summons to Kejriwal in a criminal defamation suit filed by political advisor to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for making baseless allegations against her, an undeterred Kejriwal is all set to take on the CM on the issue of electricity tariffs, at a press conference later today. [caption id=attachment_610392 align=alignleft width=380 Arvind Kejriwal, convenor of the tw
strongNew Delhi:/strong Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal today criticised the UPA government for not coming out with a strong Lokpal bill, asserting that the proposed law would not check corruption. Why should you have any Lokpal? If an agency is created which will not stop corruption, will lead to increased corruption and provide protection to ministers, then what is the point, he told reporters here. We were not interested in just the word Lokpal. You can name it anything. The government has not done a favour to the people of the country (by the bill). It is the government's constitutional duty to give a corruption-free regime, he said. [caption id=attachment_608955 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Activist-tu
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to industrialist Mukesh Ambani over the defamation notice the latter had served on various TV news channels. The channels were served notices for the telecast of Kejriwal's press conference of 31 October where he had leveled various allegations against Reliance Industries Ltd and Ambani, including alleged government favours in the KG offshore deal. Kejriwal's letter claims that since the allegations were made by him and Prashant Bhushan, they were the ones to be sued. After TV channels had telecast Kejriwal's allegations live, Mumbai-based legal firm AS Dayal & Associates sent notices to them alleging that they had telecast defamatory material.Live telecast of these press conferences amounts to permanent publication of defamatory material relating to our client by you...Each of the two press conferences were telecast live without making any attempt to verify the truth or veracity of the statements and allegations being made.... [caption id=attachment_601278 align=alignleft width=380 Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejri
strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam AadmiParty (AAP) today alleged there was an attempt to politicisethe death of constable Subash Tomar and accused Delhi Policeof deliberately trying to prove something. The party said there was a stark difference between theeye-witness accounts and the doctors treating him at the RamManohar Lohia Hospital on the one hand and the post-mortemreport on the other. [caption id=attachment_569954 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejr
strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party today alleged that Delhi Police had wrongly implicated eight people in the death of a constable following Sunday violence at India Gate and claimed there was no evidence of their involvement. Police has no evidence about these people, whom they have arrested from different places and were protesting peacefully for justice to the gang rape victim, AAP Convenor Kejriwal said. [caption id=attachment_568849 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejr
strongNew Delhi:/strong Can Arvind Kejriwal be tried under the Information Technology Act for his allegations against Parliament, political parties and their leaders? This question was asked in the Rajya Sabha on Friday by BJP member Jai Prakash Narayan Singh. [caption id=attachment_558002 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Can Arvind
Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare addresses the media in New Delhi on December 11, 2012. Hazare defended his stand for not voting for the Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man Party) launched by activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, according to media reports. Indian anti-corruption activist Ann
strongKolkata/strong: Social activist Arvind Kejriwal who recently launched the Aam Aadmi party today demanded a referendum on FDI in retail. All of us have seen how political parties behaved in Parliament during a debate on FDI in retail. I think the issue should be brought under a referendum, Kejriwal told reporters on the sidelines of the pan IIT conference here. [caption id=attachment_550562 align=alignleft width=380 strongKolkata/strong: Social activi
strongNew Delhi:/strong Blaming Arvind Kejriwal's fascination for power for the split in anti-graft movement, Anna Hazare today said he will not vote for the Aam Aadmi Party because it is going the same way as others by taking the path of 'money through power' and vice versa. Asked whether his former aide has become greedy for power, the 75-year-old activist said, It was right. I thought I will (vote for AAP) but now I find it difficult because it is being seen that it is moving towards the path of 'money through power and power through money', I will not be anywhere near them, he said at a session of a two-day programme 'Agenda' organised by 'Aaj Tak' news channel. [caption id=attachment_547616 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Blaming Arv
Arvind Kejriwal, RTI activist-turned politician and national convener of the Aam Admi Party, will make yet another expose today at 5 pm but has not hinted who his target will be this time around. Kejriwal had earlier targeted billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries,UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari as well as the government for neglecting NSG commandos. He had even taken on the issue of black money stashed abroad in his last expose and accused a foreign bank of encouraging corruption in India. [caption id=attachment_544362 align=alignleft width=380 Arvind Kejriwal, RTI activist-turne
strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Monday joined a protest by Bhopal gas tragedy victims near the Prime Minister's office and alleged the government's agenda of wooing foreign investments is acting as a deterrent in ensuring justice for those affected. The party's chief spokesperson Manish Sisodia took part in the protest on the 28th anniversary of the gas tragedy and said if voted to power, the party will make a law which will put guilty corporations and their officials responsible for the tragedy behind the bars. [caption id=attachment_543730 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejr
strongRoha (Maharashtra):/strong Arvind Kejriwal launched his Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Maharashtra unit on Sunday with a rally from Mumbai to Roha in Raigad district. Kejriwal also released a black paper on irrigation to counter the white paper released by the government, which gave a clean chit to Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in allegations of irregularities worth Rs 20,000 crore in irrigation projects in the state. Pawar was also irrigation minister during 1999-2009. The rally was held in Roha, the hometown and stronghold of current Irrigation Minister Sunil Tatkare, who is also allegedly involved in financial irregularities in irrigation projects. [caption id=attachment_542601 align=alignleft width=380 strongRoha (Maharashtra):/strong Ar
strongBhopal:/strong Social activist-turned politician Arvind Kejriwal's newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is considering to field its candidates in the next year's Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. The matter to contest the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to be held in November 2013 was discussed at a meeting in New Delhi recently, AAP state committee member Sharad Singh Kumbre said here today. The AAP has already formed its state committee and all 45 district-level committees in Madhya Pradesh, Kumbre said. [caption id=attachment_538662 align=alignleft width=380 strongBhopal:/strong Social activis
strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and vowed to send corrupt ministers to jail within six months of his party being voted to power. Addressing an impressive gathering at Parliament Street in New Delhi, Kejriwal also asserted that Jan Lokpal will be passed in Parliament within 15 days of the AAP coming to power. There is no end to the list of corrupt ministers and leaders in the country. All these people should be charged and sent to jail if charges against them are proved. I assure you people that if the common man's party and common man come to power, all these people will be tried and jailed within six months, he said in his valedictory address at the launch ceremony. Flanked by Shanti Bhushan and former Navy Chief Admiral Ramdass who drafted the party's Constitution, he took pains to explain to people assembled there how different his outfit was from the existing politicial parties whom he accused of having looted the country since Independence. [caption id=attachment_536558 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejr
A supporter of Indian anti corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, unseen, fills a membership form at the formal launch of his political party 'Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)' in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. The writing on the hat reads: A supporter of Indian anti corrupti
A supporter of Indian anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal fills a membership form at the formal launch of his political party 'Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)' in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. A supporter of Indian anti-corrupti
strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejriwal today formally launched his 'Aam Admi Party', saying now the fight will be between leaders and the common man who has been suffering for the past 65 years since Independence. Addressing an gathering at Parliament Street here, Kejriwal said the new party was the result of the struggle against corruption. We have named this party Aam Admi Party. Hope you support it, he told the people who kept waving the tricolour and shouting 'emBharat Mata Ki Jai/em'. Before the official launch of the party, Kejriwal and some of his supporters visited Rajghat and then BR Ambedkar Memorial in Civil Lines. [caption id=attachment_535870 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Arvind Kejr
Activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal (C) listens to fellow party member Prashant Bhushan (L) after the launch of the 'Aam Aadmi Party (Common man party) in New Delhi on November 26, 2012. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), India's newest political party, was formally launched by activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal in the presence of thousands of supporters. Activist turned politician Arvind K
strong12 :00 pm: Kejriwal reaches Parliament Street, to formally launch Aam Aadmi Party /strong Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal will formally launch his political party, 'Aam Aadmi Party', at Jantar Mantar on Parliament Street today. Kejriwal had announced the name of his party on Saturday and released the party's constitution. After the launch, he is expected to visit the BR Ambedkar Memorial at Alipore Road to pay his respects to the leader and then pay tribute to the those who bravely fought the terrorists in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. [caption id=attachment_535407 align=alignleft width=380 strong12 :00 pm: Kejriwal reaches P
As Arvind Kejriwal announces his political party, the Aam Aaadmi Party, the obvious speculation is whether the party will be able to convert their seeming popular support into votes. What can history teach the Aam Aadmi Party? Let's take a look at the fortunes of the Raj Thackeray promoted Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). The MNS was launched in 2006, when Raj Thackeray walked out of the Shiv Sena over differences with his cousin, Uddhav Thackeray and his uncle, the late Bal Thackeray. blockquoteSoon after the launch of the MNS, emFrontline/em had reported, Far from being a knee-jerk response, the formation of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is a carefully thought-out move from Raj Thackeray. The 38-year-old nephew of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray could easily have formed a party when he quit the Shiv Sena in December last year. He could have taken full advantage of the byelections in the Konkan in January. Victory in a single seat in that Sena-dominated region would have added considerably to his following. But he says he chose to wait and think what he exactly wanted his new party to be. These are early days, yet for the one and a half lakh supporters who turned up at the launch on March 19, the MNS may live up to its name of being a party of the new era./blockquote [caption id=attachment_535369 align=alignleft width=380 As Arvind Kejriwal announces his po
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. strongQ: How was Arvind as a child/strong? strongGeeta Devi:/strong 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. strongG R Kejriwal:/strong 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. strongQ: In terms of career, what were your expectations from him?/strong strongGeeta Devi:/strong We never forced anything on him and allowed him to follow his heart. We trust his decisions. strongG R Kejriwal:/strong 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. strong/strong [caption id=attachment_535267 align=alignleft width=380 India Against Corruption activist A