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1. This is the 1st blow-by-blow account, based on official documents, of how the Modi Govt ensured that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's proposal of making Magsaysay Award winning IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi AAP Govt's anti-corruption chief failed. bit.ly/2OwpNAa
2. The proposal generated immense public curiosity at the time. Appointment of Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who has a reputation for probing & exposing scams, in Kejriwal’s Office suited the #AamAadmiParty's stated agenda of battling corruption well bit.ly/2OwpNAa
3. As has been reported, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal wrote to the environment minister Prakash Javadekar in Feb 2015 requesting Chaturvedi’s services & asking him to personally look into the matter. bit.ly/2OwpNAa
4. Javadekar’s ministry is the cadre controlling authority for Indian Forest Service officials, so it was to draft a proposal about Kejriwal’s request & transfer it to DoPT which, in turn, was to send it to PM #NarendraModi-led ACC for official approval bit.ly/2OwpNAa
5. But all 3 institutions of the Modi Govt--environment ministry, Modi-led Department of Personnel & Training & ACC—took 16 months to say that IFS Chaturvedi can’t be permitted to join Kejriwal’s office. Why did they take 16 months? Thereby lies a tale: bit.ly/2OwpNAa
6. The 16 month time period is very crucial to this story. So crucial that there are multiple orders from the Central Administrative Tribunal mentioning it. See the story for more details bit.ly/2OwpNAa
7. The most important official in Modi Govt relating to this issue is IAS Ashok Lavasa, the then environment secretary, who is now one of the central election commissioners. Documents cast him in a new light as compared with present perceptions about him. bit.ly/2OwpNAa
8. Indeed, the documents show that Lavasa played an important role in the Narendra Modi-led government's efforts to prevent Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal from appointing Sanjiv Chaturvedi as his Officer on Special Duty/anti-corruption chief. Details here: bit.ly/2OwpNAa
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