Chanda Bandh Satyagraha: No List No Donation Campaign against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) due to its Opaque Funding Practices

December 18, 2016

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CHICAGO, IL, Dec 17, 2016 (IANS): A Chicago-based Neonatologist has openly criticised the opaque funding practices of Aam Aadmi Party and has called upon the party workers, volunteers and the public to take a pledge not to donate to AAP until it makes its donations public.

Dr Munish Raizada announced an online Stop Donation (Chanda bandh Satyagraha), saying the ground Satyagraha will be started at Raj Ghat on December 24.

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Please sign this pledge NOT to donate to #AAP unless it makes its donations public:https://t.co/3r78gjOAfD #NoListNoDonation

— Dr. Munish Raizada (@DrMunishRaizada) December 17, 2016

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He said that after seeking inspiration from Gandhi ji at Raj Ghat, the volunteers and participants of satyagraha will proceed to New Delhi Assembly area. Over next several days, they will cover the assembly area door to door and through market places and metro stations.

'@NoListNoDonatio campaign in full swing in Surat by @corruptionfind and his team. @ArvindKejriwal must uphold financial transparency in AAP pic.twitter.com/bAFqXrE7HY

— Dr. Munish Raizada (@DrMunishRaizada) December 16, 2016

They will seek signatures from the public and voters on a pledge form which states: “I take a pledge NOT to donate to Aam Aadmi Party until it makes its donations public.”

Raizada had written an open letter to Aam Aadmi Party on November 26 (Foundation Day) with an appeal to restore the practice of displaying donors’ lists on the official website of the party within a week.

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Raizada practices Neonatology in Chicago, but had quit his job to serve the party in India. He was a co-convener of the NRI cell of the party during 2015 and also assisted the health ministry of Delhi govt as a pro-bono advisor.

He was suspended from the party in November 2015 when he fell out with leadership over his public criticism of Kejriwal supporting Laloo Prasad Yadav in Bihar Assembly elections.

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Aadhaar Helpline Mystery: French Security Expert Tweets of doing a Full Disclosure Tomorrow about Code of the Google SetUP Wizard App

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August 4, 2018

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Google’s admission that it had in 2014 inadvertently coded the 112 distress number and the UIDAI helpline number into its setup wizard for Android devices triggered another controversy on Saturday as India’s telecom regulator had only recommended the use of 112 as an emergency number in April 2015.

After a large section of smartphone users in India saw a toll-free helpline number of UIDAI saved in their phone-books by default, Google issued a statement, saying its “internal review revealed that in 2014, the then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number were inadvertently coded into the SetUp wizard of the Android release given to OEMs for use in India and has remained there since”.

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However, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended only in April 2015 that the number 112 be adopted as the single emergency number for the country.

According to Google, “since the numbers get listed on a user’s contact list, these get transferred accordingly to the contacts on any new device”.

Google was yet to comment on the new development.

Meanwhile, French security expert that goes by the name of Elliot Alderson and has been at the core of the entire Aadhaar controversy, tweeted on Saturday: “I just found something interesting. I will probably do full disclosure tomorrow”.

“I’m digging into the code of the @Google SetupWizard app and I found that”.

“As far as I can see this object is not used in the current code, so there is no implications. This is just a poor coding practice in term of security,” he further tweeted.

On Friday, both the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as well as the telecom operators washed their hand of the issue.

While the telecom industry denied any role in the strange incident, the UIDAI said that he strange incident, the UIDAI said that some vested interests were trying to create “unwarranted confusion” in the public and clarified that it had not asked any manufacturer or telecom service provider to provide any such facility.

Twitter was abuzz with the new development after a huge uproar due to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma’s open Aadhaar challenge to critics and hackers.

Ethical hackers exposed at least 14 personal details of the TRAI Chairman, including mobile numbers, home address, date of birth, PAN number and voter ID among others. (IANS)

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