Personal Life:
Arvind Kejriwal was born on date 16 August 1968 at Siwani, Bhiwani district, Haryana. He belongs to a middle-class family. His Father Gobind Ram Kejriwal was an electrical engineer and Mother is Gita Devi. He has one brother (Manoj) and one sister (Ranjana). He was married in 1995 with a intelligent girl named Sunita Kejriwal. She always supported kejriwal in every field of his life. Arvind have two children, daughter Harshita Kejriwal and son Pulkit Kejriwal.
Kejriwal is vegetarian and has been practising the Vipassana meditation technique for many years.
Education:
Arvind Kejriwal was educated at Campus School in Hisar and at a Christian missionary school at Sonipat. 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. 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.
Political Career:
Kejriwal launched of Aam Aadmi Party in Bangalore, in July 2013. Kejriwal was elected as the party’s National Convener. The party name reflects the phrase Aam Aadmi, or “common man”, whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent.The establishment of AAP caused a difference between Kejriwal and Hazare.
AAP decided to contest the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013, with Kejriwal contesting against the incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Kejriwal won this election by a margin of 25,864 votes and 1st time be a MLA.
Chief Minister of Delhi (2013):
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. With help of Congress, AAP made their Govt in Delhi. But because some bad activities of congress’s MLAs, Kejriwal decided to resignation from post of CM on 14 February 2014.
Chief Minister of Delhi (2015):
Arvind 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. In those elections, he was again elected from the New Delhi constituency, defeating Nupur Sharma by 31,583 votes. He took oath on 14 February 2015 as Delhi’s chief minister for a second time at Ramlila Maidan.
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