About Arvind Kejriwal:
The popular social activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal
was born in Hiasr which is located in the state of Haryana and on June 16,
1968. He is also good in studies and this is the reason, he received an
opportunity to work with Tata Steel Company after completing his graduation
from IIT Kharagpur. He worked in that organization till 1992. He resigned from his position in that company
and switched to Civil Services examination and he cracked it to join as the
Joint Commissioner in Indian Revenues services. He started working in Income
Tax department of New Delhi division. While, he was working in that department,
in 2000, he resigned from their as well and started a NGO in Delhi itself,
Parivartan. In the year of 2006, he ultimately taken resignation from his job
and started working for social causes.
The foundation of Parivartan had taken place in the Delhi
itself and it was maintained by the volunteers. It was established so that it
may make the country corruption free. The basic agenda of this society was to
remove corruption from the system of government. It had also solved various
problems of the people who were facing problem due to corrupted system. The NGO
worked a lot in the field of education and also for public distribution system.
Today also, the NGO is working to improve the working inside the government
offices and providing benefits of RTI to the people.
Arvind Kejriwal is
the key personality behind the Central Right to Information Act and he is the
only person because of which, RTI Delhi is possible today.
He was also awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006
for Emerging Leadership and changing the trend of government working for the
common people. He is a devoted person to all the social activities and
participated strongly in all of them and also won various prizes for his
services. He was also come into light from the second movement which was the
struggle which he faced for the implementation of Lok Pal Bill. He was also
accompanied by Anna Hazare who is also the popular socialist. He received much
support from the people during his Hunger Strike and other movements that he
carried on.
Arvind Kejriwal is the person who met various popular
celebrities in his lifetime. He also met Mother Teresa and he was really
impressed by her service that she delivered to others. He also served the
people in Kali Ghat and followed the path of Mother Teresa while she was in
West Bengal.
The main idea behind his getting socialist was he wants to
see the country Corruptin-Free. In this way, he joined the hands of socialists
who also think in the same manner. During his movements, people of the country
were stay with him and supported him a lot.
He played a strong role in the anti corruption events in which people
had given him full support.
He is the youth icon and this is the reason that he got
support from the youths of the country for his movements.
Kejriwal established the Aam Aadmi Party in November 2012.
The party name — Aam Aadmi Party — reflects the phrase Aam Aadmi, or
"common man", whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent.The
party was formally launched in Delhi on 26 November 2012.It intends to contest
elections for the first time on 4 December 2013 by participating in the contest
for the Delhi Legislative Assembly. Kejriwal has been selected to contest
against Sheila Dikshit, a three-time Chief Minister of Delhi.He has also become
one of the five most mentioned Indian politician on social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter.
