Arvind Kejriwal

Quick Facts

Full Name	Arvind Kejriwal
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Aug 16, 1968(1968-08-16)
Age	56
Birthplace	Siwani
Country	India
Horoscope	Leo

Arvind Kejriwal Biography

Arvind Kejriwal is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on August 16, 1968 in Siwani, India. Indian politician and civil servant who received an Award for Emergent Leadership for initiating India’s Right to Information movement in order to encourage poor citizens to battle government corruption in 2006.

He worked with Aruna Roy to campaign for the Right to Information Act.

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician and a former bureaucrat who is the current and 7th Chief Minister of Delhi since February

2015. He was also the Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to February 2014, stepping down after 49 days of assuming power. Currently, he is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, which won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a historic majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats. In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from Government service, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

In 1985, he took the IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) of 563. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology 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. He spent some time in Calcutta (present- day 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.

He was the child of Gobind and Gita Kejriwal and had two siblings. He married and had two children with his wife Sunita. He named his kids Harshita and Pulkit.

Arvind Kejriwal Net Worth

Arvind Kejriwal is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Arvind Kejriwal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He used to be an Indian Revenue Service, or IRS official.

He wrote a book call Swaraj to question the present democratic structure of government.

Arvind Kejriwal was born in an upper middle-class educated Agrawal 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 Sonipat, Ghaziabad and Hisar. He was educated at Campus School in Hisar and at a Christian missionary Holy Child School at Sonipat.

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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 official 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. On 14 December 2002, Parivartan organised a jan sunvai (public hearing), in which the citizens held public officials and leaders accountable for the lack of development in their locality.

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Arvind Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Arvind Kejriwal celebrates birthday on August 16 of every year.

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). 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 Delhi’s poor citizens to fight corruption.