Arvind Kejriwal’s next target: Nitin Gadkari on Oct 16

NAGPUR: The suspense over India Against Corruption's next target ended on Friday. Reiterating that she has proof of her three meetings with BJP national president Nitin Gadkari, IAC activist Anjali Damania said she will be exposing his "lies" at a joint press conference with Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on October 16. While the news should come as a temporary breather for the Congress, it is bound to raise anxiety levels in the BJP.

If IAC's charges against Gadkari sticks, it will further fuel the Congress-BJP war of words. It could also dent the Nagpur politician's ambitions. He has given enough indications that he will contest elections for the first time in 2014. The BJP president has already been targeted in the Coalgate scam as some of his close associates have got undue benefits.

Damania had accused Gadkari of being hand-in-glove with former state deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in the massive irrigation scam in Maharashtra for which the BJP chief had sent her a legal notice. "I am prepared to meet him in court, there's no question of apologizing to him," she said. "Within hours of receiving the notice, I have replied to Gadkari," added Damania.

Demanding Resignation of Salman Khurshid, Arvind Kejriwal demands Khurshid's arrest, dismissal

Kejriwal and Kumar Vishwas along with some activists were detained by police on 12th october 2012 while marching towards prime minister's residence demanding resignation and arrest of Union Minister Salman Khurshid over allegations of financial irregularities by an NGO run by him. During the protest Mr. Kejriwal said - now this is a fight to finish and “now let’s make this place another Tahrir Square”.

EW DELHI: India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday demanded the arrest of law minister Salman Khurshid and his dismissal from the Manmohan Singh ministry over allegations of siphoning off funds meant for providing aid to the disabled through an NGO run by him and his family.

Kejriwal was addressing his supporters on Parliament Street here where they were stopped by police when the IAC members were moving towards the prime minister's 7 Race Course Road residence to press for their demand.

Kejriwal, who led a massive protest in the national capital on Friday, had been arrested and detained along with 150 others at a stadium in Bawana on the outskirts of Delhi. He was released late Friday night, but the activist and his supporters had refused to leave the stadium till Saturday morning.

Accusations on DLF and Robert Vadra

In October 2012 in a press conference kejriwal alleged of a nexus between realty firm DLF and Robert Vadra(son in law of Sonia Gandhi).He accused Vadra of taking an interest-free loan of 65 crores and heavy bargains on land from DLF Limited in exchange for political favors.He even said that Harayana government has become agent of DLF.He said Haryana government gave 350 acres of land meant for hospital to SEZ.Robert Vadra had 50% of shares in SEZ project in Haryana.

Entry into Politics of Arvind Kejriwal

After split of team Anna,he entered in active politics in spite of differences with Anna and Kiran Bedi.Anna even told him not to use his name for political purpose.However Anna later met Kejriwal along with social activist Manish Sisodia on october 1st and retaliated by saying that even though there ways are different ,their goal was the same. Its been predicted that he can catch the flag and lead less corrupted nation.

About Arvind Kejriwal, Who is Arvind Kejriwal, Arvind Kejriwal Social Activist, Arvind Kejriwal Political Party

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 Aug 1968) is an Indian social activist turned politician .He was an Indian Revenue Service official

He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India's Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people. Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the Association for India's Development, a Global Impact award winning NGO.In 2006 after resigning from IRS,he founded an NGO Public cause Research Foundation by donating his Magasaysay award money as corpus fund.In 2010, he along with a few like minded people formed India Against Corruption which aimed at enacting of strong and effective anti-corruption law in India.

Career:

Kejriwal joined Tata Steel right after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur. Kejriwal quit his job with Tata Steel in 1992[citation needed] and spent some time working with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, the Ramakrishna Mission in the North-East India and Nehru Yuva Kendra.

Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1992 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination. In February 2006, he voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in Income Tax Department.  After voluntary resignation from job, he founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement which works on ensuring a just, transparent and accountable governance. In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which works for promoting better local self governance and RTI related campaigns

Personal Life

Kejriwal is married to Sunita, who is also an IRS officer and his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie. Presently she is working as an Additional Director in Serious Fraud Investigation Office,Ministry of Corporate Affairs. They live in Ghaziabad near Delhi with their two children. Arvind Kejriwal has written a book "Swaraj".

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Kejriwal