In an exclusive interview
with CNN IBN activist Arundhati Roy reveals that even though Anna Hazare was
propped up as the saint of the masses, he was not the driver of the movement.
The anti-corruption movement, she says, is actually an agenda of multi-national
corporations to increase the penetration of international capital in India.
Roy, who had earlier
termed Anna’s movement as a ‘Gandhian coup’, expressed deep concern over Anna’s
team members running NGOs funded by multinational corporations, not all of
which are clean on the corruption front. She had written in a Hindu column on 21
August 2011…
“Kabir, run by Arvind
Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, key figures in Team Anna, has received $400,000
from
the Ford Foundation (Link
for $197,000) in the last three years.”
Kejriwal, an RTI activist,
told Firstpost via sms that he had no comment, but asked ‘where is the proof’?
While voicing her anguish
over why NGOs funded by World Bank and Ford are partcipating in mediating
public policy, she said.
