Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian

politician and social activist who has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. Previously he briey
served as Chief Minister from December 2013 to February 2014. He is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP). His party won the 2015 Delhi Assembly
elections with a majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats.

student places available. He graduated from the Indian

Institute of Technology in 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 Kolkata,
where he met Mother Teresa, and volunteered with The
Missionaries of Charity and at the Ramakrishna Mission
[11]
Kejriwal is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the in North-East India and at Nehru Yuva Kendra.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and worked
for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.[3][4]
2 Personal life
In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-toinformation legislation in a campaign against corruption.
The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated
his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the
Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental
organisation (NGO).

In 1995, Arvind Kejriwal married Sunita, his batchmate

from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie
and the National Academy of Direct Taxes in Nagpur.
The couple have two children. Kejriwal is vegetarian and
has been practising the Vipassana meditation technique
for many years.[9] He is diabetic.[12]

In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and the party

won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
Following the election, he took oce 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.[5][6]

3 Early career
Kejriwal joined the IRS as an Assistant Commissioner of
Income Tax in 1995 after qualifying through the Civil
Services Examination.[13] 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 three 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.[14] For the next 18 months,
Kejriwal was on sanctioned unpaid leave.[15] In February
2006, he resigned from his position as a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi.[13] 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 anticorruption 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.[15] Kejriwal paid 927,787 as dues, but stated that this should
not be considered as an admission of fault.[14]

On 14 February 2015, he was sworn in as Chief Minister

for a second term after his partys victory in the Assembly
election.[7][8]

Early life

Kejriwal was born in a middle-class family in Siwani,

Bhiwani district, Haryana on 16 August 1968, the rst
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, and whose
work led to many changes in the familys residence. Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns
such as Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar. He was educated
at Campus School in Hisar[9] and at a Christian missionary school at Sonipat.[10]
Kejriwals grandfather was pleased when he considered
training for a medical career but Kejriwal eventually
opted to study engineering because there were far more
1

4
4.1

Anti-corruption activism
Parivartan and Kabir

Main article: Parivartan

ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVISM

vartan led to a court order that required private schools,

which had received public land at discounted prices, to
admit more than 700 poor kids without fee.[20][21]
Along with other social activists like Anna Hazare, Aruna
Roy and Shekhar Singh, Kejriwal came to be recognised as an important contributor to the campaign for
a national-level Right to Information Act (enacted in
2005).[20] He resigned from his job in February 2006,
and later that year, he was given the Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Emergent Leadership, for his involvement with
Parivartan. The award recognised him for activating the
RTI movement at the grassroots, and empowering New
Delhis poor citizens to ght corruption.[21]

As an IRS ocer, Kejriwal was troubled by the rampant

corruption in the Income Tax department. In December
1999, while still in service with the Income Tax Department, Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others found a movement named Parivartan (which means change), in the
Sundar Nagari area of Delhi. A month later, in January
2000, Kejriwal took a sabbatical from work to focus on
By 2012, Parivartan was largely inactive. Sundar Nagri,
Parivartan.[16][17]
where the movement was concentrated, suered from irParivartan addressed citizens grievances related to Public
regular water supply, unreliable PDS system and poorly
Distribution System (PDS), public works, social welfare
done public works.[18] Calling it ephemeral and delusionschemes, income tax and electricity. It was not a regary in nature, Kejriwal noted that Parivartans success
istered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and was
was limited, and the changes brought by it did not last
characterised as a jan andolan (peoples movement)
long.[24]
by its members.[18] Later, in 2005, Kejriwal and Manish
Sisodia launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after
the medieval philosopher Kabir. Like Parivartan, Kabir
4.2 Public Cause Research Foundation
was also focused on RTI and participatory governance.
However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional doIn December 2006, Kejriwal established the Public
nations. According to Kejriwal, Kabir was mainly run by
Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, together
Sisodia.[19]
with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri. He doIn 2000, Parivartan led a public interest litigation (PIL) nated his Ramon Magsaysay Award prize money as a seed
demanding transparency in public dealings of the Income fund. Besides the three founders, Prashant Bhushan and
Tax department, and also organised a satyagraha outside Kiran Bedi served as the Foundations trustees.[25] This
the Chief Commissioners oce.[20] Kejriwal and other new body paid the employees of Parivartan.[18] Kejriwal
activists also stationed themselves outside the electricity used the RTI Act in corruption cases in many government
department, asking visitors not to pay bribes and oered departments including the Income Tax Department, the
to help them in getting work done for free.[21]
Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution
System
and the Delhi Electricity Board.[11]
In 2001, the Delhi government enacted a state-level Right
To Information (RTI) Act, which allowed the citizens
to access government records for a small fee. Parivartan used RTI to help people get their work done in government departments without paying a bribe. In 2002,
the group obtained ocial reports on 68 public works
projects in the area, and performed a community-led audit to expose misappropriations worth 7 million in 64
of the projects.[17] On 14 December 2002, Parivartan organised a jan sunvai (public hearing), in which the citizens held public ocials and leaders accountable for the
lack of development in their locality.[22]

4.3 Jan Lokpal movement

Main article: 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement

In 2010, Kejriwal protested against corruption in the

Commonwealth Games. He argued that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) did not have any powers to take
any action against the guilty, while CBI was incapable of
launching an unbiased investigation against the ministers
[23]
In 2003 (and again in 2008 ), Parivartan exposed a who controlled it. He advocated appointment of public
- Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in
PDS scam, in which ration shop dealers were siphoning ombudsman
[26]
states.
o subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic ocials.
In 2004, Parivartan used RTI applications to access com- In 2011, Kejriwal joined several other activists, including
munication between government agencies and the World Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi, to form the India Against
Bank, regarding a project for privatisation of water sup- Corruption (IAC) group. The IAC demanded enactment
ply. Kejriwal and other activists questioned the huge ex- of the Jan Lokpal Bill, which would result in a strong ompenditure on the project, and argued that it would hike budsman. The campaign evolved into the 2011 Indian
water taris ten-fold, thus eectively cutting o the water anti-corruption movement. In response to the campaign,
supply to the citys poor. The project was stalled as a re- the governments advisory body - the National Advisory
sult of Parivartans activism. Another campaign by Pari- Council - drafted a Lokpal Bill. However, the NACs

5.1

Establishment of AAP

Bill was criticised by Kejriwal and other activists on the

grounds that it did not have enough powers to take action against the prime minister, other corrupt oceholders and the judiciary. The activists also criticised the procedure for selection of Lokpal, the transparency clauses
and the proposal to disallow the Lokpal from taking cognisance of public grievances.[27]
Amid continuing protests, the Government constituted a
committee to Draft a Jan Lokpal Bill. Kejriwal was one
of the civil society representative members of this committee. However, he alleged that the IAC activists had an
unequal position in the committee, and the government
appointees kept ignoring their recommendations. The
Government argued that the activists could not be allowed
to blackmail the elected representatives through protests. Kejriwal during the launch of AAP in Bangalore, in July 2013
Kejriwal retorted that democratically elected representatives could not be allowed to function like dictators, and
5.1 Establishment of AAP
asked for a public debate on the contentious issues.[28]
The IAC activists intensied their protests, and Anna
Hazare organised a hunger strike. Kejriwal and other activists were arrested for defying a police directive to give
a written undertaking that they will not go to JP Park. Kejriwal attacked the government on this and said there was
a need for a debate over police power to detain and release
people at will.[29][30] In August 2011, a settlement was
reached between the Government and the activists.[31]

One of the major criticisms directed at the Jan Lokpal

activists was that they had no right to dictate terms to the
elected representatives. As a result, Kejriwal and other
activists decided to enter politics and contest elections.[37]
In November 2012, they formally launched the Aam
Aadmi Party; Kejriwal was elected as the partys National Convener. The party name reects the phrase Aam
Aadmi, or common man, whose interests Kejriwal pro[38]
Besides the government, the Jan Lokpal movement was posed to represent. The establishment of AAP caused
[39]
also criticised by some citizens as 'undemocratic' on the a rift between Kejriwal and Hazare.
grounds that the ombudsman had powers over elected AAP decided to contest the Delhi Legislative Assembly
representatives. Arundhati Roy claimed that the move- election, 2013, with Kejriwal contesting against the inment was not a peoples movement; instead, it was funded cumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Kejriwal became
by foreigners to inuence policy making in India. She the fth most-mentioned Indian politician on social mepointed out that the Ford Foundation had funded the dia channels in the run-up to the elections.[40]
Emergent Leadership category of the Ramon Magsaysay
Award, and also donated $397,000 to Kejriwals NGO
Kabir.[32] Both Kejriwal and Ford Foundation termed the 5.2 Chief Minister of Delhi (rst term)
allegations as baseless, stating that the donations were
made to support the RTI campaigns. Besides, several
In the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections for all
other Indian organisations had also received grants from
70 seats, the Bhartiya Janta Party won 31 seats, followed
[33][34]
the Ford Foundation.
Kejriwal also denied the alby Aam Aadmi Party with 28 seats.[41] Kejriwal defeated
legations that the movement was a plot against the ruling
incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit of the Indian
Congress by the RSS, or that it was an upper-caste conNational Congress (INC), in her constituency of New
[19]
spiracy against the Dalits.
Delhi[42] by a margin of 25,864 votes.[43]
By January 2012, the Government had backtracked on
AAP formed a minority government in the hung assemits promise to implement a strong Jan Lokpal, resulting
bly, (claiming support for the action gauged from opinion
in another series of protests from Kejriwal and his felpolls) with outside support from the eight INC MLAs,
low activists. These protests attracted lower participation
one Janata Dal MLA and one independent MLA.[44][45]
compared to the 2011 protests.[35] By mid-2012, KejriKejriwal was sworn in as the second-youngest chief minwal had replaced Anna Hazare as the face of the remainister of Delhi on 28 December 2013, after Chaudhary
ing protestors.[36]
Brahm Prakash who became chief minister at the age of
34.[46][47] He was in charge of Delhis home, power, planning, nance, services and vigilance ministries.[48]

Political career

On 14 February 2014 he resigned as Chief Minister after

failing to table the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly.
He recommended the dissolution of the Assembly.[49]
Kejriwal blamed the Indian National Congress and the

Bharatiya Janata Party for stalling the anti-corruption legislation and linked it with the governments decision to
register a First Information Report (FIR) against industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries.[50] In April 2014 he said that
he had made a mistake by resigning without publicly explaining the rationale behind his decision.[51]

5.3

2014 National Elections

REFERENCES

2009: Awarded a grant and fellowship by the

Association for Indias Development.[64]
2010: Policy Change Agent of the Year, Economic
Times Awards along with Aruna Roy[65]
2011: NDTV Indian of the Year along with Anna
Hazare[66]
2013: CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2013Politics[67]
2013: Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global
thinker, November 2013[68]
2014: Kejriwal was featured in Times 2014 Time
100 list of the most inuential people in the
world.[69]

7 Books
Kejriwal campaigning in Maharashtra, during the 2014 Lok
Sabha elections

Kejriwal said in January, prior to his resignation as chief

minister, that he would not contest a seat in the 2014
Lok Sabha elections.[52] Party members persuaded him to
change his mind,[53] and on 25 March, he agreed to contest against the BJP prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, from Varanasi.[54][55] He lost the contest.[56]

5.4

Chief Minister of Delhi (second term)

Kejriwal led AAP to win 67 of the 70 constituencies in

the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, leaving the BJP with
three seats and the INC with none.[57] In those elections,
he was again elected from the New Delhi constituency,
defeating Nupur Sharma by 31,583 votes.[58] He took
oath on 14 February 2015 as Delhis chief minister for
a second time at Ramlila Maidan.[59]

Awards and recognitions

2004: Ashoka Fellow, Civic Engagement[11]
2005: Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award, IIT
Kanpur for his campaign for bringing transparency
in Governance[60]

Swaraj. HarperCollins India.

9350299372. (co-author)

2012.

ISBN

8 See also
Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi

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