Arvind Kejriwal won the Delhi elections once again to take over
as the chief minister of India. He swears in tomorrow (14th February
2015) as the chief minister of New Delhi for the second time, after he resigned
his post in 2014. He is the leader of the AAP (Aam Aadhmi Party) and the motto
of this political body is to eliminate corruption from India. With that being
said, the logo of the AAP is a broom.
Arvind Kejriwal was born on 16th August 1968, a
day after India’s Independence Day. He is the eldest son of Gobind Ram
Kejriwal and Gita Devi. After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur as a Mechanical Engineer, he joined Tata Steel in 1989. Arvind
Kejriwal resigned in 1993 to pursue his goal to become an IAS officer. Even in
his early days, Kejriwal volunteered with The
Missionaries of Charity after meeting Mother Teresa. He later joined the
Income Tax as an Assistant Commissioner in 1995.
He resigned in 2006, after being on leave for three years. Arvind
Kejriwal faced a lot of problems in the Income Tax Department because of his
anti corruption activities and also because he did not cooperate with his
higher officials in corruption. Later on, Arvind Kejriwal started two organizations, namely Parivartan and Kabir. Later on, Kejriwal
popularized anti corruption activities and Indian citizens voted him to be the
Chief Minister of Delhi on 28th December 2013. This was when he popularized
the Jan Lokpal Bill, but since he was
not able to implement it because of non cooperation with other parties, Arvind
Kejriwal resigned on 14 February 2014 as
Chief Minister of Delhi.
He never wanted to take part in part in politics after that
and his term of 45 days was the shortest ever. However, his friends and party
members persuaded him to get back into politics, since he was the only hope for
the nation. On the same February 14th this year, Kejriwal takes
position as the Chief Minister of Delhi beating his rival parties BJP and the Indian
National Congress by a huge majority.
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