AAP founding member revolts, says party has CIA links
By Surajit Dasgupta on5 Mar 2014
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, a member of the AAP National Council, suspects his party — or its leadership at least — has connections with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Upadhyay is addressing a Press conference at 2 pm at the Press Club of India on Wednesday. Earlier, he contacted this correspondent on several occasions over the phone saying he wished to get in touch with all founding members of the party who were dissatisfied with the way the party had been functioning (about 50 of the 300 National Council members are either sulking or have resigned).
It now transpires that Upadhyay is not a ticket seeker who is cross with the party for being denied a chance to contest in the coming Lok Sabhaelections. His email addressed to the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Minister for Home Affairs among others, shows that his concern is nationalistic.
Titled, ‘Antinational activities of CIA, ISI, Ford Foundation & foreignfunded Indian NGOs & Individuals’, Upadhyay’s email dated March 4 reads (unedited),
Dear Sir,
» Many Indian NGOs & Individuals are directly or indirectly funded by American CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, USA based NGO Ford Foundation, NGOAavaz&also funded by many other foreign countries.
» Many of the Ford Foundation / Foreign Funded Indian NGOs & Individuals are Pro-Separatist, Pro-Naxal, Pro-Maoist, Pro-Terrorist and directly or indirectly involved in antinational activities.
» These Ford Foundation / foreign funded NGO people & individuals are mobilizing people on Caste, Creed, Religion &Social issues &weakening our social unity& integrity of the nation.
» American CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, Ford Foundation and foreign funded NGO people & individuals are very serious threat for our democracy, sovereignty and internal security of nation.
» Many Ford Foundation / foreign funded NGO people & individuals are contesting Parliament & Assembly election as a part of major conspiracy of American CIA & Pakistan’s ISI.
» It’s well known truththat American CIA / Pakistan’s ISI used to send their agents in USSR as a Social Activists / ResearchScholars&Ford Foundation played a key role in collapse of USSR.
» It is in public domain that American CIA / Pakistan’s ISI is dividingunity of society && weakening Integrity of the Nation thru Ford Foundation / Foreign Funded Indian NGOs& individuals.
» Entire nexus can be busted & truth will come out by enquiring Ford funded Social Activists &their family, Ford team members& Ford Foundation India representatives since 2000-2012.
Dear Sir,
» Pl order a time bound CBI/SIT / Judicial Commission enquiry against Indian NGOs & Individuals,who are directly or indirectly funded by Ford Foundation,Aavaz, CIA, ISI & foreign countries.
» Pl publish the list of Indian NGOs & individuals within 30 days, who are directly or indirectly funded by CIA, ISI, NGO Ford Foundation, NGO Aavaz&other foreign countries in last 10 years.
» Pl bring an ordinance to close the Ford Foundation and Foreign NGO offices in India & ban the CIA, ISI, Ford Foundation & foreign funded Antinational Social Activists from contesting election.
Regards
Hours after the email above, Upadhyay sent an email addressed to party national convener Arvind Kejriwal with copies to other senior members of the party. It is titled ‘National First (sic) Party Next and Self Last.’ It reads (unedited):
Dear Arvind Ji,
» Many National Council & founder members requested for 2-3 days National Council meet but it was held just for 1 day i.e. 31st January and entire time spent in speech only & time not given to National council & founder members to put their views.
» I tried to meet you many times after national council meet to discuss these issues with you personally but you couldn’t spare 10 minutes time for this.
» I emailed you 6 letter after the national council meet but you not replied any one. Then I mailed you again these and CC to national executives also.
» National First Party Next and Self Last is my conviction of life. Now I am putting my letters in public domain. PFA my letters dated 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th, 11th & 13th.
Regards
About an hour prior to the above email, he had written another to the AAPleadership with similar content. He thought his address to the high command was not being taken with the seriousness it deserved. Hence, he sent another.
A copy each of Upadhyay’s emails is in the possession of this correspondent.
Upadhyay was apparently trying to forge a lobby within the party. A lawyer by profession, he has been inviting frustrated and disgruntled elements of the party to his chamber at the Supreme Court campus. Now that internal pressure has failed to work on the AAP high command, he has decided to bring the issue out in the public domain.
However, Upadhyay clarified to this correspondent that today’s Pressconference addressed by him is to stage an open protest against the AAP’s act of giving election tickets to ‘anti-nationals’ like Raja Muzaffar Bhat, who had protested the hanging of Parliament House attack convict Afzal Guru, in Kashmir and Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda in Odisha.
Upadhyay will hold another Press conference by the end of this week to cover the issue of the AAP’s suspected CIA connection. He has been associated with Arvind Kejriwal’s NGO Parivartan and Manish Sisodia’s NGO Kabir since their formative days.
The AAP national council comprises all its founding members who attended its national convention held on November 24, 2012 to adopt the party constitution. Begun with a strength of 300, its numbers are now fluid, as every now and then some or the other founding member is resigning.