Thirteen questions for Arvind Kejriwal

1. When was the Sampoorna Parivartan registered and what is the registration number and other details of the NGO?

2. When was Parivartan created out of Sampoorna Parivartana?

3. Is it true that he continues to claim the legal status of Parivartan as follow: “Parivartan is not registered under any Act as a society or a trust or a Company. It is a people’s movement. For Income Tax purposes, it is an Association of Persons.”

4. Is it true that he advertised through various medium in June 2002 that “All donations made to Parivartan enjoys Tax exemption under section 80 G. Parivartan is also registered under section 12A of Income Tax Act”? Is this not misleading information aimed to dupe Samaritans?

5. Did he receive funds from the World bank for his campaign of Jan Sunvai in Delhi under the banner of Parivartan? When Parivartan was not registered, how was the fund routed?

6. Is it true that the World Bank featured the insignificant work of Parivartan in their Report, “Social Accountability Stocktaking Exercise for South and East Asia”.

7. Is it true that he was selected for the Magsaysay Award only after featuring in this World Bank report?

8. Is it true that in his biography as prepared by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, the first reference has been made to the CIA (Central Intelligence of Agency-USA)? Is it a mere coincidence or Freudian slippage that reveals the true character?

9. Is it true that a New York university researcher Shimrit Lee worked with his organization, Kabir in 2009-10 and advised him to launch a Colour Revolution kind of political mobilization in India? Is it true that subsequently she went to Egypt and witnessed the Tahrir uprising?

10. Is it true that the Secretary of the NGO Sampoorna Parivartan that he had founded worked in the Commission Advisory Committee of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission and therefore he bears partial responsibility for the crisis in Delhi caused by power hike and installation of faulty metres?

11. Is it true that he talks about transparency but shuts down the website of both Parivartan and Kabir when the same came under scrutiny in 2012?

12. Is it true that synchronous with his action in concealing the issue of dubious foreign funding for ulterior political motives, the Ford Foundation has also hidden all the details about funding to Kabir when this blog post appeared in October 2012 and was widely attracting the attention of patriotic Indians, thereby pointing to his complicity with dubious foreign organizations?

13. Is it true that he sought funds from foreign embassies, including that of Dutch Embassy even after being aware that all Dutch funding to Indian NGOs was stopped for many years after 2002 since those funds percolated to anti-national forces as per government reports?

Arvind Kejriwal (AK) is an imported stuff with dubious agenda who has ventilated Indian youth’s growing radicalism and hyper-nationalism far away from resisting neo-imperial strategies of the global hegemony by US and diverted it to plastic protest against India’s crony politico-corporate elite. It is not that the uprising against corruption is misguided. But, the man who seeks credit for the intense mood against the crooked class, himself appears fragile and dubious.

Digvijay Singh has asked AK on his service records: “Is it a fact that in your entire service of 20 years in Indian Revenue Service, you never served outside Delhi even though the norms of the service are that all IRS officers serve a posting only for three years in a place? Is it a fact that even your wife, who is also an IRS officer, has never served outside Delhi?”

Now, it is certain that if an honest officer intends to bring transparency and take action against wrong-doers, he cannot be tolerated by the seniors and the political-business class. It is surprising that AK was never transferred out of prime posting in the city of Delhi and when he was transferred for the first time to another lively city, Chandigarh; he proceeded on leave. He could remain posted in Delhi throughout his career defying service rules and this reflects that he was never a thorn to the corrupt persons. As an IRS, he himself admitted that he did not take bribe, but he maintained silence against his staff taking bribe. He also gave interviews during 2009 that he was offered bribes and thence he decided to work for transparency in the system. Mind it, not only transfer; AK never had to face any tough situation during his stint as Indian revenue service officer. One can just contrast his case with case of Arun Bhatiya, G.P. Khairnar or recently Ashok Khemka who had to face 43 transfers in 19 years of service or CSS officer, Niraj Kumar who had to face 7 years of suspension and more than 15 transfers in his entire career of 15 years after being alleged to be the hand behind a website http://www.tehelka.com that exposed massive corruption in defence sector and for exposing CIA activities in India through Dutch NGOs, massive loot of funds in the name of Surrender Policy for militants, Freedom Fighter Pension scam, the secret killing in Assam etc.

AK had a very smooth career. He qualified Civil services exam (1991) and was allotted IRS. He tried again next year, but again could not improve his ranking and joined as IRS. His service record was ordinary.

In January 2000, he took leave from work and founded an NGO, Parivartan. In February 2006, he resigned from the job, to work full-time at Parivartan. His brief CV:

Date of Birth: July 16, 1968Education: B. Tech. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (1989)

Experience:

a) Worked as Assistant Manager in The Tata Iron & Steel Co, Jamshedpur (1989 to 1992).

b) Joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS IT-92069) in 1992 .

c) Date of Appointment to Group A- 5.9.1993.

d) Takes study leave from the government between November 2000 and October 2002, after signing the bond. During 2000-2002, was paid a salary, under the condition that he would not leave the service for at least three years upon returning from the study leave

e) Promoted as Joint Commissioner, IT on 26.3.2003.

f) Kejriwal again went on Extra-ordinary leave without pay in 2004.

g) Never posted out of Delhi. CBDT planned to give him posting to another urban centre, Chandigarh. His wife Sunita Kejriwal (IRS IT-93072) also never posted out of Delhi between 1995 and 2004 and then to Ghaziabad.

h) Arranged a letter from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the then NAC Chairperson to PM and the Finance Minister to stop his impending transfer.

i) Resigned on 20 Feb 2006.

j) Resignation pending since he had gone on foreign training after signing a bond that he will serve the government for three years.

k) Resignation accepted through CBDT notification dated 20.12.2011 w.e.f 20 Feb 2006 only after he paid dues of Rs. 9.27 lakhs.

He received Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership (2006). The guiding hand of Ford Foundation is behind AK’s every move since then. The Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership seeks to inspire young people to apply their talents and energies to selfless and innovative service in Asia; and this award category was exclusively created in 2000 with support from a Ford Foundation grant, and honours greatness of spirit among men and women forty years old and below. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/?id=2&page=history.

In fact Magsaysay Foundation itself was planned by CIA. These declassified documents of CIA reveal the same.

AK got this award of $ 50000 at the age of 38 and the citation does not reveal some significant contribution except the fact that under the aegis of Parivartan, AK and his team could settle 2500 cases of electric bills grievances. The Magsaysay awards in different categories are constituted by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and a substantial part of the cash component is funded by the Ford Foundation (FF). Surprisingly, it is the Ford Foundation only that was financing AK during the same period while AK was also working in the Government of India. Even in the citation of the Magsaysay award to Kejriwal, was it a happy coincidence that the first reference was m made to CIA. Later, AK who had founded another organization, Kabir, with Manish Sisodia in August, 2005, became a poodle conduit for the Ford foundation-Dutch and other active American interests in India.

Herein is the capsule of Kejriwal’s dubious NGO career:

While on Study Leave and taking full salary, started Parivartan along with Manish Sisodia in 2000 for RTI campaign.

on Study Leave and taking full salary, started along with Manish Sisodia in 2000 for RTI campaign. As on March 10, 2009, Parivartan is not an NGO or registered under any Act of Governments in India. Its website reveals that Parivartan is not registered under any Act as a society or a trust or a Company. It is a people’s movement. For Income Tax purposes, it is an Association of Persons.

But then Parivartan did receive World Bank Project without being covered under any Indian Act? Has AK disclosed it anywhere? Here is a World Bank report on AK and Parivartan.

Parivartan was not a registered society, Trust or company or anything under any Act of India as on April 8, 2002 (link).

But, as on June 28,2002, the website claimed it is registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 in the name of “” and that all donations made to Parivartan are exempt under Section 80G and 12A of IT Act. The website sought donations from public. This is a public fraud and a criminal case should now be filed against AK and Sisodia for duping people to donate them through their mischievous advertisement on their own website. The link of 28 June 2002 is here retrieved from Wayback machine.

NGO Kabir spun off of Parivartan and began operations on August 15th, 2005. The website came in operation since 17th Dec.2007

Kabir was funded heavily by Ford foundation. This is surprising that Kabir started getting funds from the very first year of operation.

Kabir ‘s FCRA submission(Calculated from the Annual return of Kabir)

Sl. No Year Total amount of FC received and source 1 2005-06 Rs. 4348036 from Ford Foundation on 15.7.2005 2 2006-07 Rs.3205970 from Ford Foundation on 12.12.2006 3 2008-09 $1,97000 from Ford Foundation

This is stupendous feat of award disbursement that the donor turns into the awardee for its own beneficiary. Everything seems to be premeditated and made out to launch “own men” in Indian public sphere. AK became a Ford Foundation created “important man”.

What is surprising that Kabir claims to be transparent, but has not made public its foreign grants for the year 2008-9. But, the Ford Foundation site reveals it all. Kabir was given a grant of $1, 97,000 in the year 2008.

Again, the next year return reveals Kabir received Rs. 6075149 in the year 2009-10, but the details have been hidden as Annexures not made public in the name of transparency.

Kabir’s own declaration of Year wise details of Foreign Contributions

Sl No Year Total amount of FC received 1 2005-06 4374117* 2 2006-07 3205970 3 2007-08 0 4 2008-09 7973078 5 2009-10 6075149 6 2010-11 573578 7 2011-12 0 8 2012-13 0

Now, things turn up crystal clear. AK was picked up by the Ford Foundation way back before 2005. The Ford Foundation began to finance his all activities and pushed him into limelight with conferring the Magsaysay Award. What he claims that he donated all his award money to a Trust. But the fact speaks otherwise. He created a trust with a donation of Rs.1000 on 20th December 2006. Here are the facts:

On 19th December, 2006, Kejriwal formed a trust, Public Cause Research Foundation(PCRF) with Rs.1000/- from Magsaysay award vide Cheque No. 36110 dated 20 Dec. 2006 , with himself as main Trustee, Manish Sisodia and Abhinanadan Sekhari.

A NY University researcher Shimrit Lee visited Kabir and prepares a report, Public Power: India and Other Democracies (2010). She assisted in Kabir’s campaign for the Right to Information and Local Self-Rule.. Nowadays, she is actively working in Egypt. In a way, foreign organizations were funding him, assisting him with think tanks and also awarding him while he was still in the government service. Ford Foundation India Representative Steven Solnick admitted that Foundation’s last instalment to Kabir was in 2010. “Our first grant to the NGO was of $1, 72,000 in 2005; the second was in 2008 of $1, 97, 000,” and that Magsaysay award for emergent Leadership was also funded by them (link).

A website BeyondHeadlines has filed one RTI to know the details of the foreign contributors to Kabir and has come up with the startling answer. Kabir received funds from the Ford Foundation (Rs 86,61,742), PRIA (Rs 2,37,035), Manjunath Shanmugam Trust (Rs 3,70,000), Dutch Embassy (Rs 19,61,968), Association for India’s Development (Rs 15,00,000), India’s Friends Association (Rs 7,86,500), United Nationals Development Programme (Rs12,52,742) while Rs 11,35,857 were collected from individual donations between 2007 to 2010 (link).

Based upon this information, a lawyer Manohar Lal has filed a PIL in the Delhi High Court bearing no. W.P.(C) 3412/2012 on 21 May,2012. The High Court has sought status report within 3 months from the government of India vide their order dated 30.5.2012.

Kabir was raided by the Union Home Ministry officials for a suspected violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) on 22nd August, 2012 after a court order.

But, more curious is the fact that Kabir has been directly funded by the Dutch Embassy. The amount made public is merely the tip of the iceberg. When embassies can come out openly with funding an individual or organization, one can see the confidence and brazenness of the powers which are pushing Kejriwal for their own strategic game in India.

…….to be continued