Purshottam Rupala Forges Documents To Malign Anhad Thursday 2 May 2013
PRESS RELEASE May 2, 2013 PURSHOTTAM RUPALA FORGES DOCUMENTS TO MALIGN ANHAD ANHAD has been under concerted attack last few months. The attack came from the Gujarat State BJP President and Rajya Sabha MP Mr Purshottam Rupala, who wrote letters to the Prime Minister against Anhad and also leaked half baked information against Anhad to various small time websites assumingly supported by them. In order to throttle every dissenting voice which stands for safeguarding democracy and secularism both in Gujarat and at National level BJP has stooped too low. Mr Purshottam Rupala has attached FC 6 forms for 2009-10 and 2010-11 with his letter to the Prime Minister. He has specifically raised the question of Anhad hiding grant from HIVOS , Purshottam Rupala writes: “ I also want to highlight a very important point which has come to my knowledge that ANHAD has not declared to the Ministry of Home that it has also received Euro 3580 from HIVOS” . The fact of the matter is that FC 6 forms submitted to the Prime Minister of India by the Rajya Sabha MP and BJP Gujarat president Mr Purshottam Rupala are forged. Mr Rupala has raised in his letter that Anhad has not declared to the Ministry of Home that it received Euro 3580 from Hivos. He has submitted a copy of the FC-6 form which shows that Oxfam India gave 18,42,735 to Anhad in 2009-2010. Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 (FCRA 2010) was passed by Rajya Sabha on 19th August 2010 with a view to replace the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 1976. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 came into effect from May 1, 2011. There was no Online filing of accounts in the year 2009-10 and FC-6 forms did not exist in 2009-10 and 2010-11. ANHAD did not file any online form for year ending 31 March 2010, it became mandatory to file online forms only in 2011-12. In 2009-10 and 2010-11 FC3 forms existed and not FC-6. In Mr Rupala’s forged FC 6 document address of Oxfam India is shown as: Plot No 19, Amravati Cooperative Housing Society, Secunderabad- 500009. In forged FC 6 form for 2010-11 Christian Aid’s address is shown as: Calcutta. Both Oxfam Indian and Christian Aid had offices in Delhi during these years. The document is neither signed by Anhad’s Managing Trustee Shabnam Hashmi nor the chartered accountant. Copy of the FC3 form submitted to MHA signed by Shabnam Hashmi and the Chartered Accountant FOR 2009-10 is attached herewith which clearly shows all the amounts received from different donors including HIVOS. The amount mentioned above 18,42,735.00 were not given by Oxfam India only but by different donors (Oxfam India 12,15,000.00, Hivos- 2,14,785.00, Action Aid International- 1,90,000.00, Sama-40,000, Hope for Children- 1,82,950.00). Following Mr Rupala’s attack many of his cronies have written on various small time websites raising questions especially about Christian Aid’s funds. Christian Aid supports ANHAD’s community work, women empowerment, livelihood, Disaster Risk Reduction Work in Bihar and Kashmir. Mr Rupala is not only ignorant about ANHAD’s work but also paranoid (attached a media cutting from 2007 where he gave a call to fight Anhad as Anhad had brought 1000 people from outside to do nataks against Gujarat. These were in fact 45 young activists from within Gujarat who travelled on three routes and performed all over Gujarat taking the preamble of the Indian constitution to the people of Gujarat). It is very clear that by specifically targeting Christian Aid they want to use the communal card which they have perfected over years. ANHAD was formed in 2003 and our major work is safeguarding democracy and secularism. In Gujarat, where on an average assembly doesn’t work for more than 30 days per year, where Deputy speaker is not appointed, where MLAs are told what questions to ask and senior police officers are sent to take MLAs signatures on blank question forms and various reports questioning all undemocratic practices are never placed on the floor of the house, talking of democracy and secularism by default becomes anti- Modi. Every single voice within Gujarat: RB Sreekumar, Sanjeev Bhatt and others have been under attack. RTI activists Amit Jetwa, Nadeem Sayed have been killed. Now that Mr Modi has national ambitions they are attacking every civil society voice including ANHAD, Harsh Mander, Gagan Sethi, Teesta Seetalvad. Anyone who can expose Mr Narendra Modi’s communal agenda as well as the myth of Gujarat development at the national level is under attack. Anhad has got FCRA since 2009 and it takes funds under it through legal means. ANHAD submits and files the required documents, audited accounts to the Home Ministry according to the law. Anhad works all over India and has offices in Delhi, Gujarat, Kashmir, Haryana, and Bihar. ANHAD has worked in areas which are the most difficult in Kashmir in terms of terrain and political conditions- we work in Tangdhar which remains under 20 feet snow for almost 6-8 months and in Mewat and remote villages of Bihar with very backward and conservative communities. ANHAD has made over 10000 women literate over the past 3-4 years and have given vocational training to over 2000 women and 3000 young boys and girls. ANHAD provided livelihood support to 700 families in Kashmir and 100 families in Bihar. It was due to ANHAD’s fearlessness than Gopalgarh (Rajasthan), Forbesgunj (Bihar) and Dhule (Maharashtra) police firing were brought to the attention of the nation with the help of national media. 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