Ø Arvind Kejriwal was born on 16th
August, 1968 in Hisar, Haryana. His father was an engineer so he had his
schooling done in most of the small northern Indian towns like Mathura, Sonepat
and Hisar. He is married to Sunita who is a former colleague in IRS. They stay
in Ghaziabad with their two kids. He is a vegetarian by choice and has been
practicing Vipassana for many years now.
Ø He had his schooling done from Campus School
and went on to get the degree of mechanical engineering from one of the best
and topmost institute that is IIT Kharagpur.
Ø After completing his education he joined the
TATA Steels and worked there for a long time after which he appeared for the
Civil Service Examination. After appearing in the exam and till the time the
result was out he had some time in his hand so he went to Kolkata to work with Mother
Teresa and then with Ramakrishna Mission and Nehru Yuva Kendra. He got selected
in IRS through the civil service exam and from there he resigned as a Joint Commissioner
in the Income Tax Department in 2006.
Ø Another unknown & interesting fact about
Arvind Kejriwal is that he along with few other people was the founder of a
movement of Parivartan (which means change) where he used to help people with
their income tax problem and through this movement 800 cases were resolved
effectively in 18 months. He soon realized that people are getting dependent on
them to get their work done as the common man had no right so he brought in to
light the Right to Information Act. With the help of this act the corrupted
people can be pointed out but there was no law to convict them. This made him
start his fight against corruption and get a new law so that the corrupted
people can be punished.
Ø Anna Hazare was at the lead of this movement
but the brain behind this was of Arvind Kejriwal. The Lokpal bill was drafted
by him along with Kiran Bedi and some other personalities. The movement gained
momentum when Anna Hazare started his fast at Jantar Mantar. But no result came
out, Indian government directly challenged team Anna to come to the parliament
and pass Lokapal bill. This was the main reason why Arvind Kejriwal and many
other team members made their party (Aam Aadmi Party). Anna Hazare
refused to join the party as he thinks that politics is a dirty pond full of
dirty people.
Ø Fight against corruption was his motto and
to get things done he also had to go for fast for 12 days. Though the bill was
passed in the Lok Sabha but it got rejected in the Rajya Sabha so they again
sat for fast which continued for more than 10 days. He was requested to form a
political party by eminent personalities of the country and after several
discussions to support the Lokpal bill he formed a political party which is
called the Aam Admi Party.
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Ø He has received the CNN-IBN, Indian of the
year; Distinguish Alumnus Award from IIT Kharagpur for his leadership quality;
NDTV Indian of the Year along with Anna Hazare and IIM Gold Medal. The most
prominent award is that of Ramon Magsaysay award for his emerging leadership
qualities.
Ø His party will have no high command and the
ideology of his party is Swaraj. In his party women and youth will play an
important role.
Ø He had taken to twitter to make the people
aware of the works that they are doing and what ideology they believed in.
Ø He donated the prize money that he received
from the Ramon Magsaysay award to a NGO.
Ø He is strictly against the system where the
MP is given so many facilities like too much security, large accommodation, lal
batti or red beacons which block so much traffic, sometimes even ambulance! He
also said that his party member will never use any facility if elected.
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