India Against Corruption

The Pink Paper constituting the original IAC organisation (then known as India Against Colonialism) was drafted under the chairmanship of Sachindranath Sanyal , and adopted along with the Yellow Paper, the Green Paper and the White Paper . Only the Yellow paper was made public, the White Paper emerged during the trial of the Kakori Bomb Conspiracy,... and copies of the Pink and Green papers are preserved in the National Archives of India. On 17 April 1973, the moribund 'India Against Colonialism' body was revived and renamed as India Against Corruption for purposes of filing a petition before the Allahabad High Court by HRA leader, the late Raj Narain. In coordination with other simultaneous lok andolans in Gujarat (Nav Nirman andolan) and Bihar (Bihar Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti) the movements coalesced into the Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution) struggle against Congress Party misrule under Lok Nayak JayaPrakash Narayan (JP) which culminated in the national state of Emergency in 1975. The object of the organisation are to establish, through revolution, a Republic of the United States of India under a Federal Constitution of the Republic, enforced by organized and armed committees of citizens in a lawful, democratic and Constitutional manner. The basic principle of the organisation shall be Universal Suffrage and the abolition of all systems which make any kind of exploitation of man by man possible. The prominent members of the glorious past include Chittaranjan Das, Lala Hardayal, Raj Chandra Chaudhuri, Lala Kanshi Ram, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Jadugopal Mukhupadhyaya, Sachindranath Sanyal, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sachindra Bakshi, Keshab Chakravarthy, Dev Datt Bhattacharya, Bhagat Singh, Rajindra Nath Lahiri, Yogesh Chandra Chatterji, Kali Das Bose, Raj Narain, Lal Bahadur Shastri etc. The current IAC (India Against Corruption) is an organised synergy of Indias leading anti-corruption and transparency activists who met between 13.Oct.2006-15.Oct.2006 at New Delhi and decided on the spot to form a ...Read More