Anjali Damania

Anjali Damania Biography

Anjali Anish Damania is an Indian anti-corruption activist and politician. She was the convener of Maharashtra state unit of Aam Admi Party (AAP), and a Director of the real estate firm SVV Developers. During 2011–12, she exposed corruption in the Kondhane dam project through RTI queries.

She came into the limelight in 2012, after she accused the Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari of having a business partnership with the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. She unsuccessfully contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Nagpur, as an AAP candidate against Gadkari.

However, in March 2015, she quit the AAP amid allegations of horse trading against national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. She may probably join the breakaway group that is likely to come into existance after the 15 April meet.

A pathologist by profession, Anjali Damania owned a 30-acre farm in the Kondivade village of Raigad district. In 2011, the government sent her a notice, stating that her land would be acquired for the construction of the Kondhane dam. In June 2011, she sent a letter to the Irrigation Department, asking for location of the dam as she wanted to check if her land would be submerged. 

She then went out of the country. When she returned in August, she found that the work on the dam had already started. She filed the RTI queries to know more about the project. That is one of the reasons she decided to join politics against corruption.

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Updated: April 02, 2015