Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is
an Indian politician and the Chief Minister-designate 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 role in drafting a proposed Jan Lokpal Bill and his efforts to bring
and implement the Right to Information (RTI) act at grassroots level.
Kejriwal won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Emergent Leadership in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right
to Information Act and for his efforts to empower the poorest citizens of
India. 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.
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.
Following the elections, he is likely to become
the youngest Chief Minister of Delhi. The AAP has announced its intention to
form a minority government in the hung Assembly, with what Dikshit describes as
"not unconditional" support from Indian National Congress.
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