Arvind Kejriwal Birth Date

Aam Adami  Party leader Arvind Kejriwal was born on 16 August 1968. He is 50 years old.

Arvind Kejriwal Family

Arvind Kejriwal was born in an upper middle-class educated 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 Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar.

Arvind Kejriwal Qualification

He was educated at Campus School in Hisar and at a Christian missionary Holy Child School at Sonipat.
In 1985 he took IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) of 563.

He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, majoring in mechanical engineering

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Arvind Kejriwal Wife

In 1995, Arvind married Sunita, a 1993-batch IRS officer. She took voluntary retirement in 2016 as Commissioner of Income Tax in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.

The couple have a daughter named Harshita, and a son named Pulkit. Kejriwal is a vegetarian and has been practising the Vipassanā meditation technique for many years.

Arvind Kejriwal History

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.

He spent some time in 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.

Arvind Kejriwal Biography

In February 2006, he resigned from his position as Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi.

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 Nagar area of Delhi.

A month later, in January 2000, Kejriwal took a sabbatical from work to focus on Parivartan.

Later in 2006, board of trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation awarded Kejriwal Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership.

The board praised his involvement in the grassroots movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against corruption.

Later he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

In 2011, Kejriwal joined several other activists, including Anna Hazare, to form the India Against Corruption (IAC) group.

Later the IAC demanded enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill, which would result in a strong ombudsman. 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.

By January 2012, the Government had backtracked on its promise to implement a strong Jan Lokpal, resulting in another series of protests from Kejriwal and his fellow activists.

These protests attracted lower participation compared to the 2011 protests. Later by mid-2012, Kejriwal had replaced Anna Hazare as the face of the remaining protestors.

Arvind Kejriwal AAP

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. In November 2012, they formally launched the Aam Aadmi Party; Kejriwal was elected as the party’s National Convener.

Soon AAP decided to contest the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013, with Kejriwal contesting against the incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

In the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections for all 70 seats, the Bhartiya Janta Party won 31 seats, followed by Aam Aadmi Party with 28 seats.

Kejriwal defeated incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit of the Indian National Congress (INC), in her constituency of New Delhi by a margin of 25,864 votes.

Soon AAP formed a minority government in the hung assembly with outside support from the eight INC MLAs, one Janata Dal MLA and one independent MLA.

The governor  sworn Kejriwal as the second-youngest chief minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013.

Later on 14 February 2014 he resigned as Chief Minister after failing to table the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly.

Later Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party to win 67 of the 70 constituencies in the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections.

In those elections, he was again elected from the New Delhi constituency, defeating Nupur Sharma by 31,583 votes.

Soon he took oath on 14 February 2015 as Delhi’s chief minister for a second time at Ramlila Maidan. Since then his party has passed the Jan Lokpal Bill though with some differences

Arvind Kejriwal Movie

An Insignificant Man, a 2017 Hindi/English Indian socio-political documentary co-produced and directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla and also co-produced by filmmaker Anand Gandhi.

The documentary is about the rise of anti-corruption protests in India and the formation and rise to power of the Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal.