Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician and social activist . He belong to middle class family in Siwani, Haryana.Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns such as Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar. He Graduated from IIT kharagpur in mechanical engineering and worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.
In 1995, Arvind Kejriwal married Sunita, his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie and the National Academy of Direct Taxes in Nagpur. The couple have two children. Kejriwal is vegetarian and has been practising the Vipassana meditation technique for many years.
In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).
In 2010, Kejriwal protested against corruption in the Commonwealth Games. In 2011, Kejriwal joined Indian anti-corruption movement with several other activists, including Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi, to form the India Against Corruption (IAC) group and demanded Jan Lokpal Bill, which would result in a strong ombudsman.
In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and he defeated Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013. He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties.
He briefly served as Chief Minister from December 2013 to February 2014. He is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). His party won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats.
They perform well in punjab assembaly election also but remained on 3rd postion in rankig after congress, NDA.
They perform well in punjab assembaly election also but remained on 3rd postion in rankig after congress, NDA.
