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jpg 7th Chief Minister of Delhi Incumbent Assumed office 28 December 2013 Preceded by Sheila Dikshit MLA, Delhi Legislative Assembly Taking office Succeeding Sheila Dikshit Constituency New Delhi Personal details Born 16 August 1968 (age 45) Siwani, Haryana Political party Aam Aadmi Party Spouse(s) Sunita Kejriwal Children Two Alma mater IIT Kharagpur Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is the 7th and current Chief Minister of D elhi. Born in Haryana, Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technol ogy 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 (R TI) 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 c ontribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act. In 2006, after res igning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to fo und 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 e lection by a margin of 25,864 votes.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Activism 2.1 Parivartan 2.2 Right to Information 2.3 Jan Lokpal Bill 3 Political career 4 Writing 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links Early life Kejriwal was born in the village of Siwani, Haryana, on 16 August 1968 to Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, a well-educated and well-off couple. He has a young er sister and a brother. His father was an electrical engineer who graduated fro m the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and whose work led to many changes i n the family's residence. Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian t owns such as Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar. He was educated at Campus School in H isar.[2] Kejriwal studied mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharag pur and then from 1989 he worked for Tata Steel. He left that job in 1992, havin g previously taken leave of absence in order to study for the Civil Services Exa mination,[2] and spent some time in Kolkata, at the Ramakrishna Mission in North -East India and at Nehru Yuva Kendra.[3] Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1995 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination.[4] In 2000, he was granted two years' paid leave to

pursue higher education on condition that upon resuming his work he would not re sign from the Service for at least three years. Failure to abide by that conditi on would require him to repay the salary given during the leave period. He rejoi ned in 2003 and worked for 18 months before taking unpaid leave for 18 months.[5 ] In February 2006, he resigned from his position as a Joint Commissioner of Inc ome Tax in New Delhi.[4] The Government of India claimed[when?] that Kejriwal ha d 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 stipu lated three year period during which he could not resign and that this was an at tempt to malign him due to his involvement with Team Anna, a strand of the India n anti-corruption movement. Eventually, in 2011, the matter was resolved when he paid his way out of the Service with the help of loans from friends.[5] Kejriwal is married to Sunita, who is also an IRS officer and his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie and the National Academy of Dir ect Taxes in Nagpur. The couple have a daughter and a son. Kejriwal is a vegetar ian. He has been practicing Vipassana for many years.[2] Activism Parivartan Kejriwal believes "Change begins with small things". In December 1999, while sti ll in service with the Income Tax Department, he helped found a movement named P arivartan (which means "change"), focused on assisting citizens in navigating in come tax, electricity and food ration matters in parts of Delhi. The Parivartan organisation exposed a fake ration card scam in 2008[6][7] but, according to a f ounder member, did not have a great impact generally and was largely moribund by 2012.[8] Right to Information Together with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri, Kejriwal established the Pub lic Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, donating the prize money he had received from the Ramon Magsaysay Award as a seed fund.[9] This new body paid th e employees of Parivartan.[8] Kejriwal has used the Right to Information Act in corruption cases in many gover nment departments including the Income Tax Department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution System and the Delhi Electricity Board.[3] Jan Lokpal Bill Main article: Jan Lokpal Bill Kejriwal was the civil society representative member of the committee constitute d by the Government of India to draft a Jan Lokpal bill, following a campaign fo r introduction of such legislation that featured Anna Hazare. He had been arrest ed for his support of Hazare.[10][11] Political career Kejriwal established the AAP in November 2012. The party name reflects the phras e Aam Aadmi, or "common man", whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent.[12 ] 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 assemb ly elections of December 2013[13] Those elections were the first contested by th e AAP and in them Kejriwal defeated the incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit , in her Assembly constituency of New Delhi.[14] The party as a whole won 28 of the 70 available Assembly seats.[15] The AAP then announced its intention to form a minority government in the hung A ssembly, with what Dikshit describes as "not unconditional" support from Indian National Congress.[16][17] Kejriwal was sworn in as the second-youngest Chief Mi nister of Delhi on 28 December 2013, after Chaudhary Brahm Prakash who became ch ief minister at the age of 34.[18] He is in charge of Home Ministry, Power, Plan ning, Finance, Vigilance and other non allotted ministries.[19] Writing Kejriwal's book, Swaraj, was published in 2012.[20]

Awards 2004: Ashoka Fellow, Civic Engagement[3] 2005: 'Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award', IIT Kanpur for his campaign for bring ing transparency in Government[21] 2006: Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership[6] 2006: CNN-IBN, 'Indian of the Year' in Public Service[22][23] 2009: Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur for Eminent Leadership[24] 2009: Awarded a grant and fellowship by the Association for India's Development. [25] 2010: Policy Change Agent of the Year, Economic Times Awards along with Aruna Ro y[26] 2011: NDTV Indian of the Year along with Anna Hazare[27] 2013: CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2013-Politics[28]