IRS body sends notice to Kejriwal

New Delhi: Already stung by media organisations for contentious means to collect funds, Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal faced further embarrassment from his former service’s association, which slammed his claims aired on FM radio channels that he could have made crores of rupees if he had stayed in his previous job.

Kejriwal had quit Indian Revenue Service (IRS) to set up an NGO to work for Right to Information Act (RTI).

The IRS association in a letter to Kejriwal has conveyed its “strong anguish and hurt” in various statements attributed to the AAP leader.

The association president, Dileep Shivpuri, in his letter has asked Kejriwal “to correct the facts, contrary to your claims, you have never worked as commissioner and your batch has still not been promoted as commissioner in Income Tax.”

The Association has also cautioned Kejriwal from repeating the claims, otherwise “we will be constrained to take steps to protect our image.”

The association has quoted Kejriwal’s claim that “I was a commissioner in IT and an ordinary IT inspector makes Rs 1 crore in a year and I too could have made crores of rupees but I left services to serve the people.”

“Your statement casts aspersion on the whole department, including every employee. The association wishes to remind you that no department or organisation is corrupt or honest; it’s the individual who may be so. The association does not support defaming and maligning the entire personnel. It needs to be emphasized that even your wife is a member of the department,” Shivpuri has stated in the letter to Kejriwal.