Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recommended a CBI inquiry against IAS-turned-social activist Harsh Mander’s Aman Biradari NGO for alleged Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) violations, government sources said on Monday.
Mander was among the most ubiquitous faces in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Delhi. He has also been called a Congress sympathiser, for having worked closely with Sonia Gandhi from 2010 to 2012 in the National Advisory Committee, considered “the most powerful club in the Manmohan Singh government”.
The MHA’s recommendations were sent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct an inquiry against Mander’s NGO Aman Biradari as it finds violations of the FCRA, said a government source, requesting anonymity.
Aman Biradari, on its website, has mentioned that it is a people’s campaign for a secular, peaceful, just and humane world. It aims to attain the same through the building of local level institutions at village and district levels, comprising mainly the youth and women, from diverse backgrounds and faiths in order to strengthen mutual bonds of tolerance, fraternity, respect and peace between people of different religions, caste and language groups.
Attune to the true spirit of our nation, the website reads, Aman Biradari through its activities aims to inculcate and promote equal citizenship, justice, communal harmony, peace, and the celebration of our social and cultural diversity within the very grassroots of our society.
