Vijay Anand (politician)

Vijay Anand
Co-founder and President, 5th Pillar
SSC Member-Lok Satta TN
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Born March 7, 1969(1969-03-07)
Coimbatore

Vijay Anand (Tamil: விஜய் ஆனந்த்: 1969 - ), is a social reformer and anti-corruption crusader keen on promoting cleanpolitics. He is the co-founder and President of 5th Pillar, a citizens coalition against corruption. He launched "Freedom from Corruption" campaign in 2007, printed and distributed more than 2 million copies of the Zero Rupee Note(ZRN), a powerful but non-viloent weapon of non-cooperation against corruption.

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Early life

Vijay Anand was born on Mar 7th, 1969 in Coimbatore in Tamilnadu. He joined Government College of Technology (GCT) Coimbatore, India for his Bachelor of Engineering. Later, Started an IT consulting firm (Ripple Korp) in United States.

5th Pillar

Vijay Anand co-founded 5th Pillar, an organization to Encourage, Enable and Empower Every Citizen of India to Eliminate Corruption at All Levels of Society.

  1. Legal Redress for Victims of Corruption: Enhancing the role of civil society in corruption related litigation and
  2. People Count: -Citizen Empowerment, Grass-Roots Action, Corruption Disruption

Delegate from India at 13th IACC held by Transparency International, the UN and allied organizations at Athens, Greece in Oct „08

  1. Joint Secretary of India Cultural Coordination Committee(ICCC),
  2. Board of Director of National Federation of Indian-American Association (NFIA)
  1. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India
  2. Mr. P. Chidambaram, former Finance Minister of India
  3. Mr. Elango Rangaswamy, Local body Chief & Founder-Panchayat Academy
  4. Mr. M. B. Nirmal, an Ashoka fellow and founder of EXNORA,
  5. Dr. M.S Udhayamoorthy, founder of MSE(People Power Movement) to garner Indian Diaspora support towards various developmental issues and motivate them towards social activism & social change among the citizens in India.

Makkal Sakthi / Lok Satta TN

Vijay Anand joined Makkal Sakthi in July 25, 2009 with clean politics and good governance and improvement of India as the main agenda. The party is aimed to enrich the political scenario in India with its true spirit and felt that it would be considered as an alternative to any other political party, since it aimed to create a true and faithful political picture in India with out involving illegitimate money, liquor and caste in elections.

Personal life

Vijay Anand is the son of Dr.M.Murugesan and Dr.Sellamal. Both Phd in Agriculture. Vijay Anand is married. His Son and Wife are living in US.

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