IAC members demand details of funds

When they walked out,former core committee members Mufti Shamoon Qasmi and Swami Agnivesh had both raised this issue.

Both Anna Hazare and his team may have publicly denied concerns about the financial arrangement between India Against Corruption and Public Cause Research Foundation,the NGO of Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia,but the matter was discussed at length in Mondays core committee meeting with members demanding details of funds spent by the PCRF.

They also wanted to know why the three-member finance sub-committee formed in December last year has not met even once till date.

There have been recurrent reports about many members of the core committee not being happy with the fact that though Janlokpal movement has got huge donations over the last one year it is the PCRF which has actually received the money. When they walked out,former core committee members Mufti Shamoon Qasmi and Swami Agnivesh had both raised this issue.

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The official IAC position has been that it has no bank account and the PCRF gets to handle all its money because it is the IAC secretariat. The issue was recently raised in an open letter to Hazare from IAC volunteers which also questioned the inaction of the finance sub-committee.

At one point during the discussions on Monday,Kejriwal suggested that given the recurrent allegations about the funding it may be a better idea if the IAC is registered separately and a bank account opened. However,in the end it was decided that with the July 25 fast approaching and the countrywide tour to undertake,all this paperwork could wait. The finance sub-committee comprising Kumar Vishwas,Gopal Rai and Arvind Gaur,however,would have to meet at least once a month.

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