[HumJanenge] Foxed by fake e-mail, IAC sends out a disclaimer

TO
Ajay Dixit
info.indiaagainstcorruption@gmail.com

Hi

What I emailed about the taking down of Humjanenge's excluive mailing
list for public servants on instruction of Aruna Roy / Arvind
Kejriwal gang was confidential. We are hopeful it will be up and
running soon when the administrators unfreeze it.

Your group's work is being appreciated surely but surely. Here's a far
more balanced piece from FirstPost by Danish Raza
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/iac-imposter-slams-kejriwal-in-bulk-emails-sent-to-party-database-501029.html

The Hindustan Times is a Congress Party rag. I met the late
K.K.Birla-ji many times and he always said that his heart and his
paper was with the Congress though he met with everyone.

I shall be writing my own letter/email to Dr Gulshan Rai about the
abuse / misuse of NICnet resources to shut down citizen internet
groups / lists which are critical of individuals perceived as being
close to extra-constitutional power centres in the NAC. The State is
not the only grouping which can indulge in gutter cyber warfare.

Sarbajit

On 10/25/12, IAC INFO <info.indiaagainstcorruption@gmail.com> wrote:
> *To:
> The Hindustan Times
> Hindustan Times House
> Kasturba Gandhi Marg
> New Delhi.
> *
> Date: 25.10.2012
>
> Kind Attn:
> "*Editor responsible for selection of news*",
> (see, Press Council Act 1978)
>
> *BY EMAIL*
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> *Sub: Rejoinder to news report published in The Hindustan Times, New Delhi,
> edition on 24.10.2012 and also on the internet on 23.10.2012 titled as
> "Foxed by fake e-mail, IAC sends out a disclaimer" by anonymous HT
> Correspondent.
> *
>
> Please refer to the subject news report published by an anonymous
> correspondent. I say the impugned news story is substantially false,
> incorrect, biased and the correspondent made no effort to contact the
> undersigned to provide a balanced and factually correct report.
>
> *Kindly take notice as under*.
>
> *1)* That your correspondent has published / implied that "India Against
> Corruption" movement is exclusively that of Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's faction.
> On behalf of the IAC ("India Against Corruption Collective"), I am directed
> to say that Mr. Arvind Kejriwal and volunteers working with him under the
> names and styles of *Public Causes Research Foundation, Kabir, Parivartan
> *etc.
> only form a small component of the IAC reform movement. It is pertinent to
> mention that the IAC was officially founded on 30.01.2011 at 1.00 PM (the
> day Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in Birla House) at a meeting at the Ram
> Lila grounds. The said meeting was convened by his Holiness Sri Sri
> Ravishankar along with Swami Ramdev, Swami Agnivesh, Arch Bishop Vincent M
> Concessao, Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal, Anna Hazare and many other eminent
> personalities including Mr J.M.Lyngdoh, Mr Justice Santosh Hegde, etc.
>
> *2)* That on 03.08.2012 Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's faction decided to separate
> from the IAC movement to form an as yet unnamed political party. It is
> pertinent to mention that a website "www.indiaagainstcorruption.org" was
> registered in the personal name of Mr. Arvind Kejriwal at around the time
> the IAC movement was formed in Jan 2011. His Holiness Sr Sri Ravishankar,
> Mr Justice Santosh Hegde, Kiran Bedi, Bishop Concessao and many other
> founders of the IAC movement have immedediately and publicly disassociated
> themselves with Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's decision. For instance kindly refer
> news report in The Indian Express of 04.08.2012 titled "*Anger, scepticism
> within IAC over political leap*" by their correspondent Abantika Ghosh.
>
> *3)* That the URL of the IAC mailing list published in the report is
> incorrect. It was published by HT that the URL is "
> info.indiaagainstcorruption.org", whereas the correct URL is "
> https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/indiaagainstcorruption"
> *Kindly correct this immediately*.
>
> *4)* That pursuant to Mr. Kejriwal's decision to unilaterally indulge in
> adventurist activities which do not have the approval of IAC's founders or
> the general body, he and his followers have been indulging in a series of
> cyber hacking activities to shut down internet social groups and mailing
> lists which publish information exposing his corrupt and profiteering
> activities. For example kindly refer the news report in The Business
> Standard of 22.Sept.2012 titled "*India Against Corruption assets caught in
> tug of war*" by Sreelata Menon which clearly shows how Mr Kejriwal with the
> "*connivance of a government agency*" was able to illegally swallow the IAC
> Facebook page into his much small page. To almost everyone else in the IAC
> movement, it is clear that Mr.Kejriwal is a paid agent of the Government
> and his actions are not conducive to the long term objectives of the IAC
> movement.
>
> *5)* That with the connivance of the same government agency, Mr. Kejriwal
> was also able to shut down, on 16.10.2012, an internet RTI mailing list
> titled "Humjanenge" having over 9,000 subscribers who were mainly public
> servants, and which list was stridently critical of Mr Kejriwal and his
> high level backers in the ruling NAC who have instigated Mr Kejriwal to
> split the highly successful IAC movement. Mr Kejriwal did this after a
> public spat between the Owner of Humjanenge mailing list and Smt. Aruna Roy
> on 13.Oct 2012 at the DRDO Bhawan at the 7th RTI National Convention of
> Information Commissioners.
>
> *6)* That recently Mr Kejriwal's office sent an email to IAC HQ clarifying
> the position to some of the 27 queries posed to him by Mr. Digvijaya Singh
> concerning his personal affairs unconnected with the IAC. The same was
> reproduced faithfully on the IAC mailing list which is a private mailing
> list for IAC workers. It is pertinent to mention that the eminent
> journalist Ms. Sucheta Dalal, who is evidently privy to the said email, in
> an email published on the IAC mailing list has admitted as such and was
> dissatisfied that only last line therein was added by IAC HQ. IAC HQ is
> aggrieved that Mr. Kejriwal is not prepared to stand by the email sent at
> 8:12 am from his widely known official email IAC ID "
> indiaagainstcorruption.2010@gmail.com" and is instead palming off 2
> personal gmail IDs of his junior staff as official IDs of the IAC movement.
> The same is reprehensible and your anonymous correspondent seems to have
> swallowed and published Mr Kejriwal's version hook line and sinker.
>
> *7)* That IAC HQ has reason to believe that Mr Kejriwal has retracted the
> contents of his office's email, the copy of which is retained by us,
> because immediately upon its coming into the public domain, the affected
> Humjanenge RTI mailing list shot off a statutory public grievance petition
> to the NAC concerning the role of Chairperson NAC, Aruna Roy and Mr. Pulok
> Chatterjee, referring to Mr. Kejriwal's statements.
>
> *8)* That even the official spokesperson for Mr. Kejriwal's faction, Ms.
> Aswathi Murlidharan in her emails has not contradicted / disputed the
> contents of the published statements made by Mr Kejriwal to IAC HQ. She had
> only disputed that the IAC HQ mailing list was not an official one. We say
> this is part of a long term strategy of Mr. Kejriwal's faction to either
> take over IAC assets or when that fails to shut them down with assistance
> of Government agencies.
>
> *9)* That after Mr Kejriwal's unethical and selfish actions in shutting
> down common internet resources, the IAC HQ was compelled to start an
> internet mailing list at the URL of para 3 because there was no other
> mailing list for the IAC's volunteers and the 'aam aadmi'. The mailing list
> has 7,000 genuine email IDs and will have over 30,000 email IDs of IAC
> volunteers very shortly. All emails circulated from there are archived in
> the public domain accessible at URL "https://lists.riseup.
> et/www/arc/indiaagainstcorruption"
> However, many persons associated with Mr Kejriwal's faction have been
> circulating false, abusive and intimidatory emails to defame the larger IAC
> movement by palming off their emails as originating from the IAC mailing
> list.
>
> *10)* That on 20.10.2012 the Hindustan Times published a full page article
> on Mr. Kejriwal titled "Anarchist or aam aadmi ?" by Varghese K George and
> Nagendar Sharma including a section on "Arvind's close aides". It is clear
> from your own paper's article that Mr. Kejriwal and his aides all originate
> from and have strong links in Uttar Pradesh. Mr Kejriwal's movement is
> controlled and run by the advocate father-son duo of Shanti Bhushan and
> Prashant Bhushan who are well known as linked to UP politicians and
> received favours from them. As such this tiny coterie are not
> representative of the pan-Indian IAC movement.
>
> Accordingly, IAC HQ calls upon you to ensure that prominent and balanced
> news reports are published immediately to rectify and remedy the situation.
> In the alternative, the IAC will turn the matter over to counsel for
> further redress.
>
> For any further clarifications kindly contact the undersigned at the
> official email ID of IAC HQ.
>
> *Ajay Dixit
> National Cyber Media Coordinator (IAC HQ)
> *"info.indiaagainstcorruption@gmail.com"
>