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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Politician Kejriwal losing friends in NGO world

Politician Kejriwal losing friends in NGO world

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published Published on Oct 23, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 23, 2012
-The Times of India

As Arvind Kejriwal makes the shift from the NGO world to that of politics, he faces the tough task of keeping his civil society friends with him. NGO Vidharba Jan Andolan Samiti, which has been active in raising farmers' suicides and other problems in the parched belt, has accused Kejriwal of using it for his political purposes. 

Kishore Tiwari, who heads the NGO, said, "We were asked to provide all details related to the irrigation scam and the recently developed power project crisis... these were given to the IAC. But all data given by us was intentionally not used... it resulted in single person focus where our main issues have taken a back seat." 

This is not the first time that Kejriwal has lost support from friends in civil society but ever since he announced his political inclinations, those differing with him have preferred to go public. Earlier, civil society members on board the National Advisory Council had distanced themselves from his campaign, not wishing to be attached with his "approach and methods", as some put it. 

The differences within Team Anna, when it existed, could have been passed off as fraternal arguments but the chasm between Kejriwal's overt political steps and the concerns of civil society to look at more systematic changes have a different dimension. 

Tiwari said, "We demand IAC to focus on main demands of aam aadmi who are living in remote villages and are dying without food and medicine." 

While Tiwari was initially supportive of Kejriwal's foray into politics, he sounded circumspect in a later letter, saying, "The basic need is to change the wrong model of development and fix a time agenda to deal with corrupt... We will convince these great leaders that's the main issue." 

The Times of India, 23 October, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Politician-Kejriwal-losing-friends-in-NGO-world/articleshow/16921107.cms


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