Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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

Hi

3 /r 4 things need to be quickly clarify about this news report today of the Hindustan Time

1) It specify "Arvind Kejriwal's IAC" is foxed. This is exactly what we are saying - Arvind's is not only IAC and Arvind & his few friends do not have any 'theka' over IAC movement or brand name.

2) The email ID HT has given is wrong / fake. The correct ID is "info.indiaagainstcorruption@gmail.com". This is a public ID of gmail and even Arvind faction's "official ID" are all gmail IDs.

3) Since this mailing list of IAC HQ was activated on 20.10.12 after in-principle approval on 18.10.12 from all IAC's eminent personalities  (including 2 former Chief Justice of India, religious leaders, police officers, diplomats etc), all emails of Arvind, Manish, Javed, Neeraj,  Preeti Sharma, Mayank Gandhi, Bibhav Kumar, and previous ID "indiaagainstcorruption.201@gmail.com" have been registered since day #1. The email files / database uploaded on 20.01.2012 are as given by IAC chapters only.  What were all these IAC(Arvind) people doing for 2 days ?

4) IAC HQ is going to file complaint to Press Council about objectionable reporting by Hindustan Times. This mailing list is an official mailing list of IAC. Actually it is the only mailing list of IAC where 'aam aadmi' can post !  All email IDs lists from local IAC chapters have been given to us except Arvinds including from Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad etc. After that additional email list of media persons, activists  and  intellectuals have been give courtesy well wishers, within next week there will be 30,000 genuine email IDs on subscribed to this list. Everybody is cooperating in IAC movement except Arvind's faction.

5) It is a very sad day for IAC(Arvind) if his spokesperson are chaprasis like Bibhav Kumar. He should at least make his driver as spokesperson like Gadkari has.

OFFICIAL release from IAC HQ will follow.

If Arvind's spokesperson has to say anything, all their email ID on this list is working.

Ajay Dixit

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Foxed-by-fake-e-mail-IAC-sends-out-a-disclaimer/Article1-949177.aspx

Arvind Kejriwal's India Against Corruption (IAC), which has successfully used the social media to strengthen its anti-graft movement over the past year and a half, found itself foxed by a fake e-mail address. Over the past few days, a mailing group — info.indiaagainstcorruption.org — had been sending e-mails purportedly on behalf of the IAC.

It even managed to generate a lively debate on the issue of 27 questions posed by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh to Kejriwal. One such mail, apparently sent by the IAC headquarters, dared Singh to make public the career details of Pulok Chatterji, principal secretary to the Prime Minister.

The IAC on Tuesday sent out a statement completely disowning the mailing group. "For the past 2-3 days, someone has been sending e-mails to our database from a fake ID… This is to clarify that mails from this email ID are not sent by the IAC," its spokesperson Aswathi Muralidharan said.

She said such mails should neither be treated as official nor should any press releases sent from it be taken note of.

"Kindly note that IAC will send its official mails and press releases from ash.ashwati2012@gmail.com and bibhavkumar@gmail.com," the IAC said in a statement.

Number of IAC volunteers had complained against the e-mail exchange, saying it was vitiating the debate.

The IAC was alarmed after some of the mails attributed to Kejriwal also found their way on this mailing group, which included use of offensive language and strong views, which actually were not used by him.


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