Arvind
Kejriwal (born 16
August 1968) is the 7th and current Chief
Minister of Delhi. Born in Haryana, Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, where he studied mechanical
engineering. He worked for the Indian
Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department. He is
well-known for his efforts to bring and implement the Right to Information (RTI) Act at grassroots level and his
role in drafting a proposed Jan
Lokpal Bill.
Kejriwal
won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006 for
his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act. In 2006,
after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus
fund to found an NGO, Public
Cause Research Foundation. In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and defeated Sheila Dixit in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly
election by a margin of 25,864
votes.
Kejriwal
established the AAP in November 2012. The party name reflects the phrase Aam Aadmi, or "common man",
whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent.
He became
one of the five most mentioned Indian politician on social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter in the run-up to the Delhi legislative
assembly elections of December 2013.Those elections were the first
contested by the AAP and in them Kejriwal defeated the incumbent Chief
Minister, Sheila Dikshit, in her Assembly constituency of New Delhi.The party as a whole won 28
of the 70 available Assembly seats.
The AAP
then announced its intention to form a minority government in the hung
Assembly, with what Dikshit describes as "not unconditional" support
from Indian National Congress. Kejriwal
was sworn in as the second-youngest Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December
2013, after Chaudhary Brahm
Prakash who became chief minister
at the age of 34. He is in charge
of Home Ministry, Power, Planning, Finance, Vigilance and other non allotted
ministries.
Special Thanks To
Mr D Micah Nayagam
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