DELHI CHIEF MINISTER ARVIND KEJRIVAL BORN ON 1968 AUGUST 16

DELHI CHIEF MINISTER ARVIND KEJRIVAL BORN ON 1968 AUGUST 16

About Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal is a social activist and politician. He is the CM designate of Delhi as his party AAP won 67 of the 70 assembly seats of Delhi.
 He launched the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2012. 

A former Indian Revenue Service officer, he is better known for his key role in drafting the Jan Lokpal Bill.

In 1999, Kejriwal founded Parivartan, an NGO aiming to assist the citizens in electricity, income tax and food ration-related matters. He won the 2006 Ramson Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership for his contribution to empower the poorest at the grassroots level and implement the Right to Information Act (RTI). He created a corpus fund with the award money and founded the NGO ‘Public Cause Research Foundation’ in 2006. 

Kejriwal also published a book called Swaraj in 2012. 

Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as Delhi Chief Minister for the first time on 28 December 2013 at the Ramlila Maidan and formed the government with Congress's support. However, his tenure lasted for only 49 days as he decided to resign from his post after both BJP and Congress turned adamant and put their foot down against giving clearance to Aam Aadmi Party's Jan Lokpal Bill. 

One Year of Kejriwal Government

Kejriwal’s one-year-old government has seen quite a few hits and misses. While he started the AAP government started delivering on the promises of subsidy on power consumption, the government was put in the dock when a rift within party came out in open after Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were kicked out of the party. 

Some of the promises that the AAP government kept include regularisation of unauthorised colonies, launching anti-corruption helpline, and providing licences to e-rickshaws. What brought much ill repute to AAP government is the constant spat with the Centre. 

Kejriwal not only accused the LG Najeeb Jung of rendering an elected government ineffective, he took pot-shots at Delhi police chief B. S. Bassi for not being "competent enough" to ensure the safety of the people. 

Personal background of Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal was born on 16 August 1968 in Bhiwani, Haryana, to a well-educated couple, Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi.

 Arvind Kejriwal has a younger brother and a younger sister. His father, Gobind Ran Kejriwal, was an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. His father’s work related transfers led him to several different places. Consequently, Arvind Kejriwal had to spend his childhood mostly in towns like Ghaziabad, Hisar and Sonepat.

 He studied at the Campus School in Hisar. Arvind Kejriwal graduated in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1989. He also spent some time at the Ramkrishna Mission and Nehru Yuva Kendra in Kolkata. 

KEJRIWAL IN RIGHT IN BACK

Kejriwal is married to Sunita, his batch mate from the National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. She is an IRS officer. They have two children - a daughter, Harshita, and a son, Pulkit. Arvind Kejriwal is a pure vegetarian and has been a regular practitioner of Vipassana.