Rvind Kejriwal

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rvind Kejriwal

(born 16 August 1968) is an Indianpolitician and social activist who has been the
Chief Min-ister of Delhi since February 2015. Previously he brieflyserved as Chief
Minister from December 2013 to Febru-ary 2014. He is the national convener of the
Aam AadmiParty (AAP). His party won the 2015 Delhi Assemblyelections with a
majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assem-bly seats.Kejriwal is a Mechanical
Engineering graduate of theIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and workedfor
the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commis-sioner in the Income Tax
Department.
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In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon MagsaysayAward for Emergent Leadership
recognising his involve-ment in a grassroots movement
Parivartan
using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption.The same
year, after resigning from the IRS, he
donatedhisMagsaysayawardmoneyasacorpusfundtofoundthePublic Cause Research
Foundation, a non-governmentalorganisation
(NGO).In2012,helaunchedtheAamAadmiParty,andthepart

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