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Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal

Born 16 August 1968Hissar, Haryana

Education B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Alma mater IIT Kharagpur

Organization Parivartan (परिवर्तन)Public Cause Research FoundationIndia Against Corruption

Political movement Anti-Corruption Party2012 Indian anti-corruptionmovement2011 Indian anti-corruptionmovementRight to InformationJan Lokpal Bill

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Website

http:/ / www. pcrf. in/

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 Aug 1968) is an Indian social activist turned politician [1] [2] .He was an Indian RevenueService official [3]

He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India's Right toInformation movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption byholding the government answerable to the people.[4][4][4][4] Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the Association forIndia's Development,[5] a Global Impact award winning NGO.[6] In 2006 after resigning from IRS,he founded anNGO Public cause Research Foundation[7] by donating his Magasaysay award money as corpus fund.In 2010, healong with a few like minded people formed India Against Corruption which aimed at enacting of strong andeffective anti-corruption law in India.[8]

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Early lifeArvind Kejriwal was born on 16 August 1968, Haryana. His father was an engineer and he spent most of hischildhood living in small northern Indian towns like Sonepat, Mathura and Hissar. He did his schooling fromCampus School.[9] Kejriwal graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 1989.[3] Hewas a resident of Nehru Hall of Residence.[10][11] In PAN IIT 2011 speech, Kejriwal recollected how IIT Kharagpurshaped him as a person saying, "I was at IIT Kharagpur from 1985 to 1989 and I think that was the most criticalperiod of my life". "Whatever I learnt at IIT has stayed with me .. the entire culture, environment has laid thefoundation in my life... and I am very grateful to my alma mater ". "I urge all fellow IITians..you are the cream ofthis country .. please go and influence the politicians to pass the Jan Lokpal bill ".[12]

CareerKejriwal joined Tata Steel right after his graduation from IIT Kharagpur. Kejriwal quit his job with Tata Steel in1992 and spent some time working with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, the RamakrishnaMission in the North-East India and Nehru Yuva Kendra.[13][14]

Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1992 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination.[14] InFebruary 2006, he voluntarily resigned from the IRS as Joint Commissioner in Income Tax Department.[15] Aftervoluntary resignation from job, he founded Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens’ movement which works on ensuring ajust, transparent and accountable governance. In December 2006, Kejriwal along with Manish Sisodia andAbhinandan Sekhri started Public Cause Research Foundation, which works for promoting better local selfgovernance and RTI related campaigns[16]

Right to InformationHe along with Aruna Roy and others, campaigned for the Right to Information Act (RTI), which soon became asilent social movement, Delhi Right to Information Act was passed in 2001[10] and eventually at national levelIndian Parliament passed the RTI in 2005. Thereafter, in July 2006, he spearheaded an awareness campaign for RTIacross India.[17] To motivate others Arvind has now instituted an RTI Award through his organisation.[18] Kejriwalhas been using RTI in corruption cases in many government departments including the Income Tax department, theMunicipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution System (PDS), the Delhi Electricity Board and others.[13][19]

Jan Lokpal BillAfter spearheading the Right to Information Act, 2005 campaign, it became clear that corruption could be exposed using Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI). However, to prosecute and punish corrupt people, an effective anti-corruption law was needed. Arvind Kejriwal along with Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Santosh Hegde and Kiran Bedi drafted Jan Lokpal Bill. As the bill was edited and revised time to time after country wide public consultations, it was known as Jan Lokpal Bill i.e.Peoples's Lokpal bill. Though Anna Hazare was the leader of the movement for Jan Lokpal, Arvind Kejriwal is regarded as the architect behind the movement. Janlokpal bill movement actually started when Anna Hazare started a fast at Jantar Mantar on 5 April 2011. This got immense support from all over the country and government was forced to form a joint drafting committee for Lokpal Bill.India Against Corruption had announced indefinite fast from 15 August 2011 if government would fail to bring the lokpal bill in the monsoon session of the parliament in August 2011. On August 16, 2011, key members of the India Against Corruption including Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, and Manish Sisodia were arrested four hours before the planned indefinite hunger strike by Hazare.[20] Rajan Bhagat, spokesman for Delhi Police, said police arrested Hazare under a legal provision that bans public gatherings and protests at the park in Delhi where Hazare was planning to begin his hunger strike. Activists were later released same day although they spent two more days in the Tihar jail negotiating conditions put on protest.[21] Kejriwal left the jail on August 18 and the protests started the following day from Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.[22] After twelve days of protests and many discussions between the

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government and the activists, the parliament passed a resolution to consider three points in drafting of Lokpal bill.[23]

Indefinite Fast from 25th July 2012

After referring the bill to a standing committee, the bill was presented to both houses of parliament in the wintersession. However, according to India Against Corruption it was a weak bill that lacked effective measures. The billwas passed in the Lok Sabha, but it could not be passed by Rajya Sabha. In the budget session the bill was decided tobe referred to select committee for further recommendations. Now India Against corruption has come to a conclusionthat 15 tainted ministers in the central cabinet are behind the delay in the process of passing of a strong Lokpal bill.India Against Corruption demanded establishment of Special Investigation Team to investigate corruption chargesagainst the 15 tainted cabinet ministers and establishment of fast track courts to prosecute MPs against whom gravecriminal charges are pending. These demands being rejected by Government, Arvind Kejriwal along with ManishSisodia and Gopal Rai, sat on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar from 25 July 2012. This agitation was supported bythousand of people nationwide.Even after 10 days of fasting, government did not respond to any of the demands.When a group of 23 eminent citizens of this country including Ex Army chief/Naval Chief, retired Chief Justice ofsupreme court,retired bureaucrats requested them to break the fast and give a political alternative to thiscountry.After consulting popular opinion, Anna Hazare and his team decided to go ahead with forming a politicalparty.

Entry in politicsAfter split of team Anna,he entered in active politics in spite of differences with Anna and Kiran Bedi.Anna eventold him not to use his name for political purpose.However Anna later met Kejriwal along with social activistManish Sisodia on october 1st and retaliated by saying that even though there ways are different ,their goal was thesame.[24] [25] Its been predicted that he can catch the flag and lead less corrupted nation.

Accusations on DLF and Robert Vadra

In October 2012 in a press conference kejriwal alleged of a nexus between realty firm DLF and Robert Vadra(son inlaw of Sonia Gandhi).He accused Vadra of taking an interest-free loan of 65 crores and heavy bargains on land fromDLF Limited in exchange for political favors.He even said that Harayana government has become agent of DLF.Hesaid Haryana government gave 350 acres of land meant for hospital to SEZ.Robert Vadra had 50% of shares in SEZproject in Haryana.[26] [27] [28]

Kejriwal has also been associated with Youth for Equality, the anti-reservation (that opposes affirmative action onthe basis of caste) movement. [29]

Personal lifeKejriwal is married to Sunita, who is also an IRS officer and his batchmate from National Academy ofAdministration in Mussoorie.[11] Presently she is working as an Additional Director in Serious Fraud InvestigationOffice,Ministry of Corporate Affairs. They live in Ghaziabad near Delhi with their two children.[14] Arvind Kejriwalhas written a book "Swaraj".[30][31]

Awards• 2004: Ashoka Fellow, Civic Engagement.[13]

• 2005: 'Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award', IIT Kanpur for his campaign for bringing transparency inGovernment.[10]

• 2006: Ramon Magsaysay Award for Eminent Leadership.[4][4]

• 2006: CNN-IBN, 'Indian of the Year' in Public Service[32]

• 2009: Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur for Eminent Leadership.[3]

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• 2010: Policy Change Agent of the Year, The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence along withAruna Roy.[33]

• 2011: NDTV Indian of the Year along with Anna Hazare[34]

Arvind Kejariwal has also won an IIM Gold Medal.

Flip-flop Attack on KejriwalTeam Anna member Arvind Kejriwal was attacked with flip-flops during a program in Jhulelal Park Lucknow, Indiaunder India Against Corruption (IAC) anti-graft campaign.[35]

After the incident, the accused was caught by the IAC volunteers and handed over to the police. Later, Mr. Kejriwalasked that the accused be released and did not file any FIR against him.[36]

The accused was identified as Jitendra Pathak of Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, who worked for the Indian NationalCongress from 2006-2009 and is a former member of Congress Sewa Dal.[37] He was not a mere party worker butwas responsible for key areas in Jhansi. As per the accused acceptance, he considers Rahul Gandhi as his rolemodel.[38][39]

Kejriwal's attacker Jitendra Pathak has been sacked from his job. He is working in a private construction companyAnsh Project Service, Lucknow.[40] On the other hand, Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to the chairman of thecompany to take back their decision and to retain the accused. As per Kejriwal's ideology, violence can be stoppedby non-violence only and taking Jitendra's job is violence against the accused and his family.[41]

In a Sting operation done by India TV in Lucknow, the attacker threatened a bomb attack during Anna Hazare'santi-graft movement in Uttar Pradesh .[42]

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External links• 'Parivartan' Official website (http:/ / www. pcrf. in)• 'Arvind Kejriwal' website (http:/ / www. arvindkejriwal. net) - This link is broken• 'Public Cause Research Foundation' Official website (http:/ / www. pcrf. in)• 'The Insurgent' by MEHBOOB JEELANI, The Caravan (http:/ / www. caravanmagazine. in/ Story.

aspx?StoryID=1050& Page=1)• Arvind Kejriwal Interview BBC Hindi (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ hindi/ regionalnews/ story/ 2006/ 08/

060806_information_talkingpoint. shtml)• Arvind Kejriwal Interview BBC Hindi - Audio (http:/ / www. esnips. com/ doc/

676bf34c-098b-434f-9827-b1ac3e05fa3c/ RTI---Arvind-Kejriwal---Magsaysay-Prize-winner)• Jaago Re! (http:/ / www. jaagore. com/ blog/ usse-kuchh-farak-padega-kya/ ) "Usse kuchh farak padega kya?":

Arvind Kejriwal on fighting corruption in India• An Interview with Arvind Kejriwal (http:/ / www. indiatogether. org/ 2006/ aug/ ivw-arvind. htm)• 'Lokraj Andolan' (http:/ / www. lokrajandolan. org)• 'India Against Corruption' (http:/ / www. indiaagainstcorruption. org/ )• 'Valmik Thapar Interviews Arvind Kejriwal' (http:/ / ibnlive. in. com/ news/

changes-can-be-made-in-jan-lokpal-bill-kejriwal/ 148843-3. html)• Follow Jan Lokpal Bill Movement (http:/ / www. janlokpal. net)• Swaraj(English/Hindi):Arvind Kejriwal Swaraj (http:/ / iacmumbai. org/ sadmin/ images/ system_documents/

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