It's been 7 years already and you have wasted these years in pursuit of patriotism.
You have wasted so many years.
You didn't focus on your children.
You have ignored your family as well.
You must spend some time with your children now.
Enough of this patriotism.
Arvind has made a good career for himself...
Do you see any changes in the country?
Has he done anything to change the country? He did nothing!
I have certain questions that I want to ask, and only Arvind can answer them.
Okay fair enough, since you are here now, go and meet him
but still, I don't think it will be of any use.
You have been associated with him for so many years
but still, I don't see any change in the country.
So, why are you wasting your time?
Fine, if you have some questions ask him, try to get the answers this time.
But also spend more time with your children.
You have ignored them for so many years.
Isn't it?
Yes.
Take further decisions wisely.
Hello, how are you?
Sir, I am Ankit Yadav.
I am good. Yes, I remember you.
How come you are here?
I just came for some work.
How's everything?
All good.
Do come in.
Yes, sure I'll come in some time. You carry on.
Sir, I want to meet the C.M. Arvind Kejriwal ji.
Please ask at the reception.
Does he come here nowadays?
Sir, from here we only see the people coming in and going out.
You will get to know at the reception.
Okay.
I wanted to find out about the accounts of donations.
You go to the reception and make an entry pass.
Earlier the Aam Aadmi Party's donor list was updated on the website,
but now they have stopped sharing the details.
So, I wanted to inquire about that.
You can ask at the reception, they will help you.
Okay at the reception.
But has the C.M. come today?
Sir, we don't know we just do the entry here.
They will tell you at the reception.
Okay, thank you.
Hello Madam, how are you?
I want to meet respected Arvind Kejriwal ji...
because Aam Aadmi party claims that whatever donation money they take from the citizens
they disclose the accounts of donation.
But the party has removed the donors' list from its website.
Hence I have come here today at the Secretariat office
to meet Arvind Kejriwal and to request him to resume the donor's list.
You cannot get that information from the inquiry desk.
Janta darbar is held at his house for the people
A court session is held for the public. You can't meet him here.
But does he come to the Secretariat office?
No, he does not sit here, he only comes for meetings.
But no one knows when he comes and leaves.
Hearings are held at his house in the morning.
I went there but they said the C.M. refused to meet.
Not possible.
I had gone there.
You must go between 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
He meets everyone.
In the past few days, I went there to met him many times
Maybe he is busy with the elections so he couldn't meet.
Elections are over now.
They just got over now, but earlier he was busy in that.
Hence he couldn't meet.
7895... 709613
Okay do one thing, call Ms. Aswathi.
We don't have her number.
Please call either Aswathi or Bibhav.
Okay please listen to me once and inform them that...
I can't do it.
Ask those people who are sitting in that room.
Who is sitting in that room?
You check if anyone is sitting there.
Okay. but if you just call them and say Dr. Munish Raizada has come from Chicago to meet them...
What will they say?
They can't meet him?
No, he is not here.
Okay the C.M. is not there in the Secretariat office.
Okay.
I have come here many times, so it's nothing new.
Okay, thank you. Thank you.
Financial transparency was the foundation of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Aam Aadmi Party had promised to do clean money politics
that's why people not only from India but also from foreign countries came forward to support this party.
I want to understand more about these donation scams.
So for this purpose, I went to UIC to meet a political science professor and politician Prof. Dick Simpson in Chicago.
What is political funding?
So, our campaigns, particularly in the United States, are more expensive than any in the world.
Give you just an example, to run for a city council position
in the city of Chicago generally costs at least 250,000 dollars.
Where we are sitting right now both of the candidates who were in the runoff,
raised nearly a million dollars just to run for the city council's seat.
To run for president of the United States is very costly.
I don't remember the exact number but it's considerably more than half a billion dollars.
I want to dig deep into this donation funding scam business,
therefore I met the ADR Director, Dr. Jagdeep Chhokar in Delhi.
There are 2 types of political funding in India.
In other countries, it is known as campaign financing.
One of them is the funding that is needed to run the political party
like their office expenses, volunteer expenses, their cars and computers.
So money is required for all these expenses.
The money needed for running the political party must be known as political funding.
Money is also required to contest in the elections and if we give it a proper term
it should be known as electoral financing or electoral funding.
But the money is mixed up and used for both these purposes.
Is this money clean?
Not all of it is.
Is it accountable?
We have an immense problem in campaign funding in the US,
which comes particularly from a series of Supreme Court decisions
which has said reversing 80 years of previous decisions and laws.
But now any corporation, or labor union, or interest group can give as much money as they want
to any election and they don't always in many cases do not reveal who their contributors were.
So, if you wanted to form a political action committee and have some wealthy friends give you money
and you give them to the candidates, we would never know which of your wealthy friends contributed.
See as far as the question of secrecy of political funding is concerned,
in that case, all political parties are the same.
The earlier government had started a new scheme known as electoral trust.
And whichever company or person wants to donate money can do it,
and then the trust will distribute the money between the political parties.
So electoral trusts were formed.
And we saw there is one electoral trust from which both BJP and Congress got a good amount of money equally.
I asked them who made this?
And when I investigated this I found out that it was formed by 3 companies.
One company was in shipping, one in plastics, and one in mining.
All 3 were in different cities and different states.
So, when we exposed these 3 companies, we found out there is one company behind these 3 companies
which was registered in the UK and the name of the company is Vedanta Resources Ltd.
The owner of this company is an Indian passport holder but the company identity is British.
Because as per the Company law the company is an artificial person,,
It can sue and it can be sued.
So, this money has come from a foreign source.
And there is an FCRA law which is Foreign Contribution & Regulation Act
in which it is written that a political party cannot take any donation from a foreign source.
So, with this, we filed a PIL in Delhi High Court.
So, in 2014 Delhi High Court said that
both BJP and Congress are found guilty for violating FCRA.
And they asked the Home Ministry or may be the government of India to take action against them within 6 months.
This incident happened may be in March 2014 and now we are discussing it in April 2019.
But till now no action has been taken.
So, what I am trying to say is that the electoral trust scheme was introduced by the previous government,
and this electoral bond scheme has been introduced by the current government.
And that scheme was misused,
and to hide their misuse or actually to get rid of this misuse issue they are changing the laws.
And they are changing the laws which are already dormant.
Aam Aadmi Party was formed after the Anna Movement.
During the Anna movement, people were agitated with a patriotic feeling...
at the same time, a donation scam surfaced.
I met the former members who were a part of the IAC movement.
Let's find out more about PCRF NGO's involvement in this scam.
I was engrossed in my work during the Lokpal movement.
I had no clue what was happening behind my back.
When this movement started it didn't have any identity,
and it was not even a registered body, NGO or an organization.
But if we don't make a registered body then whatever donation,
or wealth that comes in, where and whose account will it go to?
The money will be is required to run the movement, so from where will we get the money?
So, we decided to take funds in Arvind's NGO PCRF which was already registered.
We also decided that PCRF will work as the secretariat of the movement because PCRF had some staff as well.
And you may be aware that in April and August
money was collected on a large scale
via cash, bank transfer, and cheque.
Even people from foreign countries supported them
physically, mentally and with their wealth and gave a huge amount of money.
Sacks used to be filled with money.
This is how the money was collected.
So, where is all that money?
All that money went to Arvind and Manish, as PCRF no longer exists.
Even their website has been pulled down.
Even India Against Corruption website has disappeared.
There is no account of the donations.
A scam before formation of a political party. That's what they did!
I would like to put forward a rational argument...
we organized the first meeting in Ralegan Siddhi because of Anna Hazare.
So, the money which was given for India Against Corruption which was people's hard-earned money.
And, Arvind Kejriwal took that money in his PCRF account which was totally against transparency.
And very honestly I said...
transparency means that we should have clarity and we need to prove that we are transparent.
You are right.
So, I said if India Against Corruption does not have an account,
then we can use Anna Hazare's "Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Aandolan"
because this also has the same meaning.
And people have faith in him and they trust him as well, so we can put the money in that account.
So, you proposed this to them?
Yes, I proposed this.
Why did it not happen?
This didn't happen because Arvind Kejriwal wanted to keep the control in his hands.
If that time...
Your proposal was excellent.
But that time what happened when I proposed this idea, he did corruption then only,
and everyone is involved in that corruption.
He kept quiet for a moment and then told Prashant ji,
and I was sitting on Anna's right side...
And, I told Anna to say it...
but how could Anna tell them to put the money in his account?
So, Arvind quickly closed his eyes and later opened it and told Anna, we can do one thing,
we can make Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan the trustees of my trust.
Oh! Arvind said this?
Yes, Arvind.
Now, whether he made them a trustee on record we don't know but at that time he smartly pushed the issue aside.
So, he wanted the money to go to the PCRF account and in return make them the trustee.
And, in between Anna said that 4 Crores were received from Ford Foundation
and that money was deposited in Manish's 'Kabir foundation...
Okay did Anna ji say this?
Yes, Anna ji said it. So, he said this is against transparency.
So, Manish Sisodia said Anna we will return that money and we won't keep it.
Okay, Swami ji please tell about the allegation where you said 60-70 lacs
during IAC were embezzled by Arvind.
Not 60-70 lacs, but 4- 4.5 crores.
All this money was showering through donations and it came for India Against Corruption movement.
So, we told Anna to take the money back as this money is for the movement.
But he said no it's fine, let it be with him.
Wow! What a generous man.
He got 4-5 crores and this money is connected with people's emotion but at that time he closed his eyes.
If someone has a pure intention then he can transfer through NEFT.
At that time NEFT was introduced. Isn't it?
And it's not that he didn't have the Ralegan account details.
Even if that money was not used for the movement, but still Anna ji is doing good work in Ralegan.
So, if this money would have been used for his social work there it would have been nice.
But they went there with a cheque and Anna ji refused in Gandhi ji style and said I don't want this money.
And they said Anna ji didn't take it, but if they had gone with pure intentions they could have transferred through NEFT.
This is what I said, that if someone honestly wants to give money and when you know Anna ji's habit...
It's like you already know that he won't accept, then we pretend and say please take it.
If you see the entire staff of PCRF,
the same staff is so well placed in Arvind Kejriwal's government.
It is my notion that human beings become naive when they take donations.
It makes them helpless as they lose their self-respect and they become blind
Donation!
Whatever donation amount will be collected...
we will immediately update it on our website and disclose it to the people.
And then we will challenge all other parties...
and if they have the guts we will ask them to disclose their funding details.
People are signing a petition at Rajeev chowk. Is this the beginning of a new movement?
This movement is for asking the Aam Aadmi Party...
to publicly disclose the donation details ,
and if they don't, no one should give them any donation.
We have started this mission to urge people to not give and even we will not give one rupee to them...
until they share the account of donations.
Aam Aadmi Party claims, that they will disclose
the account of every single penny and will display it on the website.
But from June 2016 they have stopped sharing it.
What are your thoughts about this?
See when they came they claimed that whatever money they make will be shown to us.
Yes.
But now we can see that they are not able to stick to their claims.
Okay.
Their words & actions are contradicting.
They are not able to fulfill the motive with which they first came.
Anyone who takes donations and wants to use the donations to do their work
should share from where they got the donations, how much they got, and where was it invested?
This kind of transparency is very important.
If they have said that they will be transparent...
and also share all the donation accounts...
then they must show it to us. Why are they doing this?
He should not do this, because it is obvious that people will question.
This is completely wrong.
If the other party jumps in a pit will you also jump after them?
If they are doing scams...
It means that if they do scams even you will do scams.
Correct.
Sir this is completely wrong.
You must stick to the truth which you initially told the citizens.
This is completely wrong.
Again I don't disrespect the Aam Aadmi Party.
It's not about disrespect, it's about...
Yes, he should stand by the principles which made him.
But again I am signing this petition because I want all parties to be transparent.
Agreed.
This is a good initiative.
They will have to maintain transparency and share the donation details.
They cannot hide it.
So, do you support our 'No List No Donation' movement?
Yes, I support it.
As we are talking about honesty I would like to share one of my poetry which applies to all these people.
If there is any honesty left in you then show it to us...
Let the fragrance of peace and harmony spread freely in the world...
I don't want to say anything more than this.
And let it be any party they should be transparent and disclose the donation details. This is very important.
And we all have to work for the national interest of our country and keep moving forward.
We don't have to be crazy about forming a party just to gain power.
Do you work honestly and it will reward you,
this is the greatest humanity lesson.
And then you will get thousands of people who will donate.
The ideology of the party is nice but the donation robber gang...
yes the donation robber gang has captured the party.
Munish is one of the NRIs, among a thousand other volunteers
who were inspired by Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption movement.
He left his flourishing career and joined hands with them to wipe out corruption from the country.
In the last elections, Munish was happy to support the political party
Aam Aadmi Party which was formed as a result of the movement.
But now he is very disappointed to see the party deviating from its declared principles.
People have come forward to support Munish in his non-violent resistance.
Aam Aadmi Party's donation details submitted to the Election Commission,
were misleading and they accepted it.
Income Tax Department has also issued them a notice.
Aam Aadmi Party, which claimed to be India's first party to contest elections with donation funds…
is now embroiled in a controversy over donations.
Video Desk, Amar Ujala TV, New Delhi.
With regards to political funding, what do you hope for?
For this there is only one hope that political parties are forced to be transparent.
Aam Aadmi Party had willing boasted complying to RTI norms.
No... they must have said.
Aam Aadmi Party is ready to comply with RTI norms.
And maybe it's India's only party to do so.
Fantastic!
Point 2… you don't even need to submit any application.
We have published all our accounts on our website.
I have filed almost 6800 applications so far.
I used to highlight every response & C.I.C. verdicts in the media.
If you feel their words & actions are contradicting…
Who's words & actions?
Of the Aam Aadmi Party… then you must file an RTI application.
And if they don't respond, then you escalate it to C.I.C.
Whatever C.I.C. unveils, share it with the media, in public domain.
Then the public must decide, any contradictions of words & actions.
Please come in...
Hello brother, how are you?
I want to meet Arvind ji.
He isn't here, must be at home.
He isn't at home, Arvind Kejriwal ji!
He doesn't come here anymore.
Is it?
Are you sure he doesn't sit here? And the party's…
Arvind ji sits only when there is a press conference...
Or if there is a meeting, only then he comes, otherwise not...
Where is the party's treasurer N.D. Gupta ji, put up?
At Ferozshah road office.
Even he doesn't come here?
No, he doesn't.
Because the party has mentioned that anyone could visit the office to review donation accounts.
Then who will show me accounts of the donations?
Bagha sir of donation team is sitting inside, you can talk to him.
Ohk… Fine, I'll go and check with him.
Hope you remember that your party used to share donation details on the website earlier…
But now, they have stopped doing so?
Hope you remember all the struggles to sustain those principles?
Kindly meet N.D. Gupta at his office, he should be there.
What do you think, will he share the account details with me?
Sir, for that you'll need to meet him only, how can I speak for him?
Okay… and since when are you associated with this party?
For a long time… since the Anna movement.
Really!....Great Anuj! And from where do you belong?
I am from Delhi.
Okay… Okay… Very well!
Where are you from?
Well, I am also from Delhi.
Where do you live?
I live in Delhi.
Where?
In Delhi.
Where in Delhi?
I'm a common worker of the party, my name doesn't matter.
For record, my name is Dr. Munish Raizada. Okay!
But, the party used to boast of sharing account details of every penny.
So, we are truly disappointed that they have stopped doing so.
Fine, you may go there and try.
But don't you agree that they must share the accounts?
They do share it, absolutely no problem there. They even share it on the website.
Where? I am tired, searching for it.
Donation details are not there.
Donation is not there online.
And a donation list…
Whoever offers a donation, only they get a receipt via email.
But their names don't get published on the website anymore.
Okay, but it should be published! They used to do so, earlier.
Sir, it was an Income Tax issue.
Income Tax used to raid them after checking our donor list.
Then why it is said that truth can be offended but not failed?
But then our donors are harassed.
We were showing it and doing all the right things...
But if someone accesses our donor list and harass them…
Then why do we show it? We won't!
Okay, tell me something…
Our donors insist to keep it private hence we aren't showing anymore.
Without transparency of donations, can we fight corruption?
Sir, who...
Okay, does Arvind ji come here?
No! Who says there is no transparency in donations?
All the donations are credited in the bank.
We don't accept cash.
The principle of justice is...
Justice should not only be delivered, it should be seemed to be delivered.
Similar is the principle of transparency...
Transparency should be visible and be made visible.
I'm saying the same thing, we don't accept any donation in cash.
Everything goes in the bank account.
It comes either by cheque, by demand draft or via online, except for cash.
So, show it on the website! Why was it shown earlier?
Earlier, we willingly used to share...
But after accessing our list, if our donors are harassed, then…
I have donated many times and have never been harassed.
We got many complaints from our donors so we removed it.
I also donated... but you were not...
I have donated Lacs & Crores… and got others to donate, as well.
Okay… We got queries...
Anyways my purpose is not to debate with you…
Well, my purpose is to meet Arvind ji.
If our donors donate and get harassed then we remove their names.
Okay, does Arvind ji come here, sometimes?
He comes, when there is a P.C....
Okay, he comes then, Otherwise not? No.
Where could I meet him? C.M. house.
I went to the Secretariat & the C.M. house, but couldn't meet.
What are the C.M. residence timings?
10 a.m. to 12 noon.
From Monday to Saturday, when did you go? See you Anuj, all the best!
Many times? But at what time?
I have gone at 10 a.m, and at 11 a.m. also.
Then what was the response?
They said he has stopped meeting the public nowadays.
But Sir elections were going on.
Elections got over long ago, I went after that also.
When did you go?
I went this morning.
And what did they say?
They just said, he is not meeting anyone.
There must be a meeting in progress, at Secretariat at that time.
Project meetings are going on from 2-3 days, so maybe that's why he couldn't meet.
Okay. Thank you! Yes
Our motive was to bring a change in power & politics
Educated & intellectual MLAs never got an opportunity in the last four and a half years.
So what was going on, inside?
One thing was very clear…
After Aam Aadmi Party came to power there was only news about its people leaving it.
News of Yogendra Yadav ji leaving, of Prashant Bhushan ji leaving…
So you have only seen people leaving.
Even my name got associated in that list.
And then many names kept getting associated.
If you look back, even before the party was made.
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, then Anna Hazare, then Kiran Bedi, then V.K. Singh…
Then Prashant bhushan, then Yogendra Yadav…
Then my sequence of events…
Then Anjali Damania, then many names such as Medha Patkar came forward.
Ashwini Upadhyay, Shazia Ilmi, Kumar Vishwas…
So there was news about people leaving... And no news of people joining.
Sushil Gupta…
So you could see, who all are leaving and who all were joining.
Just with this, you can analyze what was going on, inside.
Two big things that we promised and then failed to deliver.
Things that we used to oppose
One is decentralization of power, which was our core agenda.
We would get self-governance, ask the people to make decisions.
Work would be done as per public indications. No one would be the party's decision maker.
We would abolish the high command culture and abolish party whip.
These were the mutual decisions expressed to people, which were blatant lies.
And we delivered nothing.
The second big lie we said, we'd fight corruption & won't let it happen.
We will abolish the MP-MLA fund.
And the people would decide, who gets what. Who would steer the work.
We won't support corrupt people. We would neither seek nor offer any support to such people.
We even did swear by our kids. So, these were two main foundations on which, the movement was stable upon…
decentralization & anti-corruption. And we did exactly the opposite after coming to power.
I don't think that kind of movement would ever gain trust of people, ever again.
People will doubt, for being misused.
But now, question will be asked here is, what is your motive?
All my efforts to meet Arvind, kept failing. In the last 2 years, I wrote letters to Arvind.
Sent him emails, even called & messaged him. Went to his residence, and also tried meeting him at the Secretariat.
Even made rounds of his Aam Aadmi Party office. But Arvind never met!
Our last episode of this documentary also… got stuck due to the awaited meeting with Arvind.
In 2nd week of December 2019, a kind journalist contacted me.
That tomorrow, Arvind is attending a public function. And I could try meeting him there.
At this Indraprastha Bus Depot function, Arvind flagged off a bus fleet. He was surrounded by media professionals.
It was expected that he will stay in the function. That he would share his thoughts with people.
But within 5-7 minutes, Arvind left. I moved ahead of the crowd and rushed towards his vehicle.
While he was seated inside his car, we had eye contact but then he overlooked.
Then I chased him but he didn't consider to stop.
how much of the donations have you misused?
how much did you share, how much did you heist?
how much of the donations have you misused?
how much did you share, how much did you heist?
how much of the donations have you misused?
how much did you share, how much did you heist?
you must tell the truth...
you owe everyone an explanation
else, we will challenge your game...
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game...
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game...
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game...
You will be accountable by law.
We are transparent and we are doing as much we can.
but you are taking our donor list and harassing them.
Does Arvind Kejriwal visit this place?
Who said the donation details are not transparent?
All donations, directly go to the bank.
we don't accept cash.
There's a principle of justice...
Justice should not only be delivered it should seem to be delivered.
Give us the account of every penny spent...
answer all our burning questions...
Give us the account of every penny spent...
answer all our burning questions...
disclose the names that control you...
express everything in few words
disclose the names that control you...
express everything in few words
you must tell the truth...
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
we need to sacrifice to achieve
we yet need to revive India
we need to sacrifice to achieve
we yet need to revive India
we need to be awake to be aware
we yet need to resolve the core issues
we need to be awake to be aware
we yet need to resolve the core issues
you must tell the truth
you owe everyone an explanation
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
Transparency must be as clear as water
without it everything will be a mess
Transparency must be as clear as water
without it everything will be a mess
Fill your own pits
what you have sown, you will reap
Fill your own pits
what you have sown, you will reap
you must tell the truth
you owe everyone an explanation
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
You are asking others to share donation details
but why don't you disclose your own collections?
You are asking others to share donation details
but why don't you disclose your own collections?
before seeking disclosure from others
we expect you to disclose first
before seeking disclosure from others
we expect you to disclose first
you must tell the truth
you owe everyone an explanation
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.
else, we will challenge your game
You will be accountable by law.