Early Life and Education: Arvind Kejriwal (Hindi Pronunciation

Arvind Kejriwal
(Hindi pronunciation: [əɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl], born 16 August 1968) is an

Indian politician and a former bureaucrat who is the current and 7th Chief Minister of
Delhi since February 2015. He was also the Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to
February 2014, stepping down after 49 days of assuming power. Currently, he is the
national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, which won the 2015 Delhi Assembly
elections with a historic majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats. In 2006, Kejriwal
was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his
involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to
information legislation in a campaign against government corruption.[1] The same year, after
resigning from Government service, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus
fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organization
(NGO).
Before joining politics, Kejriwal had worked in the Indian Revenue Service as a Joint
Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi.[2][3] Kejriwal is a graduate in mechanical
engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. In 2012, he launched
the Aam Aadmi Party, which won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013.
He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority
government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of
support from other political parties.[4][5] On 14 February 2015, he was sworn in as Chief
Minister for a second term after his party's victory in the Delhi Legislative
Assembly election.[6][7]
Contents
 1Early life and education

 2Career
 3Anti-corruption activism
o 3.1Parivartan and Kabira
o 3.2Public Cause Research Foundation
o 3.3Jan Lokpal movement
 4Political career
o 4.1Establishment of AAP
o 4.2Chief Minister of Delhi (first term)
o 4.32014 General elections
o 4.4Chief Minister of Delhi (second term)
 5Legal affairs
 6Political views
 7Personal life
 8Awards and recognitions
 9Books
 10Biographies
 11In media
 12See also
 13References
 14External links
Early life and education

Kejriwal was born in an Agrawal[8] family in Siwani, Bhiwani district, Haryana on 16 August
1968, the first of the three children of Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi. His father was
an electrical engineer who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. Kejriwal
spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns such as Sonipat, Ghaziabad and Hisar.
He was educated at Campus School in Hisar[9] and at Holy Child School at Sonipat.[10] In
1985, he took the IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) of 563.[11] He graduated
from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, majoring in mechanical engineering.
He joined Tata Steel in 1989 and was posted in Jamshedpur. Kejriwal resigned in 1992,
having taken leave of absence to study for the Civil Services Examination.[9] He spent some
time in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), where he met Mother Teresa, and volunteered with
The Missionaries of Charity and at the Ramakrishna Mission in North-East India and
at Nehru Yuva Kendra.[12][13]
Career
Arvind Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as an Assistant Commissioner of
Income Tax in 1995, after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination.[14] In November
2000, he was granted two years' paid leave to pursue higher education on condition that
upon resuming his work he would not resign from the Service for at least two years. Failure
to abide by that condition would require him to repay the salary given during the leave
period. He rejoined in November 2002. According to Kejriwal, he was not given any posting
for almost a year, and kept getting his salary without doing any work; so, after 18 months,
he applied for leave without pay.[15] For the next 18 months, Kejriwal was on sanctioned
unpaid leave.[16] In February 2006, he resigned from his position as Joint Commissioner of
Income Tax in New Delhi.[14] The Government of India claimed that Kejriwal had violated his
original agreement by not working for three years. Kejriwal said that his 18 months of work
and 18 months of unpaid absence amounted to the stipulated three-year period during
which he could not resign and that this was an attempt to malign him due to his
involvement with the Indian anti-corruption movement. The dispute ran for several years
until, in 2011, it was resolved when he paid his way out of the Service with the help of loans
from friends.[16] Kejriwal paid ₹ 927,787 as dues, but stated that this should not be
considered as an admission of fault.[15]
After joining politics, Kejriwal claimed in 2013 that he had chosen public service over
earning crores as an Income Tax Commissioner. This led to a controversy, with the IRS
association pointing out that he has never been promoted to the rank of Commissioner of
Income Tax.[17]

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Arvind Kejriwal

(Hindi pronunciation: [əɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl], born 16 August 1968) is an

 1Early life and education

Early life and education

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