NAME : BANDI.

AKSHITHA
DHAKSHAYANI

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BRANCH : BTECH CSE-AIML
SUBJECT : PHYSICS
Arvind Kejriwal: A Visionary Leader Redefining
Indian Politics

INTRODUCTION :
Arvind Kejriwal born 16 August 1968 is an Indian politician, activist and former
bureaucrat, who is serving as the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since 2015,
after his first term in the post from 2013 to 2014. He is also the national convener of
the Aam Aadmi Party since 2012. He has represented the New Delhi constituency in
the Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015 and from 2013 to 2014.

EARLY LIFE :
Kejriwal was born in an Agrawal family of Baniyas in Siwani in the Bhiwani
district of Haryana, India on 16 August 1968, the first of the three children of Gobind
Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi. His father was an electrical engineer who graduated
from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in
north Indian towns such as Sonipat, Ghaziabad and Hisar. He was educated
at Campus School in Hisar[11] and at Holy Child School at Sonipat.[12] In 1985, he took
the IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) of 563.[13] He graduated
from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, majoring in mechanical engineering.
He joined Tata Steel in 1989 and was posted in Jamshedpur, Bihar. Kejriwal
resigned in 1992, having taken leave of absence to study for the Civil Services
Examination.[11] He spent some time in Calcutta (present-day 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.
CAREER :
Arvind Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as an Assistant
Commissioner of Income Tax in 1995, after qualifying through the Civil Services
Examination.[16][17][18] In February 2006, he resigned from his position as Joint
Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi.[16]
In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, which won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative
Assembly election. Since 2012, he has acted as the main national convenor of AAP.
Activism
Parivartan and Kabir
Main article: Parivartan

In December 1999, while still in service with the Income Tax Department,
Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others founded a movement named Parivartan (which
means "change"), in the Sundar Nagar area of Delhi. A month later, in January 2000,
Kejriwal took a sabbatical from work to focus on Parivartan.[19][20]
Parivartan addressed citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution
System (PDS), public works, social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity. It
was not a registered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and was characterised as
a jan andolan ("people's movement") by its members.[21] Later, in 2005, Kejriwal and
Manish Sisodia launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after the medieval
philosopher Kabir. Like Parivartan, Kabir was also focused on RTI and participatory
governance. However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional donations.
According to Kejriwal, Kabir was mainly run by Sisodia.[22]
In 2000, Parivartan filed a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding transparency in
public dealings of the Income Tax department, and also organised
a satyagraha outside the Chief Commissioner's office.[23] Kejriwal and other activists
also stationed themselves outside the electricity department, asking visitors not to
pay bribes and offered to help them in getting work done for free.[24]
In 2001, the Delhi government enacted a state-level Right To Information (RTI) Act,
which allowed the citizens to access government records for a small fee. Parivartan
used RTI to help people get their work done in government departments without
paying a bribe. In 2002, the group obtained official reports on 68 public works
projects in the area, and performed a community-led audit to expose
misappropriations worth ₹ 7 million in 64 of the projects.[20] On 14 December 2002,
Parivartan organised a Jan sunvai (public hearing), in which the citizens held public
officials and leaders accountable for the lack of development in their locality.[25]
In 2003 (and again in 2008[26]), Parivartan exposed a PDS scam, in which ration
shop dealers were siphoning off subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic officials.
In 2004, Parivartan used RTI applications to access communication between
government agencies and the World Bank, regarding a project for privatisation of
water supply. Kejriwal and other activists questioned the huge expenditure on the
project and argued that it would hike water tariffs ten-fold, thus effectively cutting off
the water supply to the city's poor. The project was stalled as a result of Parivartan's
activism. Another campaign by Parivartan led to a court order that required private
schools, which had received public land at discounted prices, to admit more than 700
poor kids without a fee.
Along with other social activists like Anna Hazare, Aruna Roy and Shekhar Singh,
Kejriwal came to be recognised as an important contributor to the campaign for a
national-level Right to Information Act (enacted in 2005). He resigned from his job in
February 2006, and later that year, he was given the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Emergent Leadership, for his involvement with Parivartan. The award recognised
him for activating the RTI movement at the grassroots and empowering New Delhi's
poor citizens to fight corruption.
By 2012, Parivartan was largely inactive. Sundar Nagri, where the movement was
concentrated, suffered from irregular water supply, unreliable PDS system and
poorly done public works. Calling it "ephemeral and delusionary in nature", Kejriwal
noted that Parivartan's success was limited, and the changes brought by it did not
last long.
Public Cause Research Foundation
In December 2006, Kejriwal established the Public Cause Research Foundation in
December 2006, together with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri. He donated
his Ramon Magsaysay Award prize money as a seed fund. Besides the three
founders, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi served as the Foundation's trustees.
[29]
This new body paid the employees of Parivartan.[21] Kejriwal used the RTI Act in
corruption cases in many government departments including the Income Tax
Department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Public Distribution System and
the Delhi Electricity Board.

National Convener of AAP

Kejriwal during the launch of AAP in Bangalore, in July 2013

One of the major criticisms directed at the Jan Lokpal activists was that they had no
right to dictate terms to the elected representatives. As a result, Kejriwal and other
activists decided to enter politics and contest elections.[43] In November 2012, they
formally launched the Aam Aadmi Party; 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
rift between Kejriwal and Hazare.
AAP decided to contest the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, with Kejriwal
contesting against the incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Kejriwal became the
fifth most-mentioned Indian politician on social media channels in the run-up to the
elections.
During the NDTV Townhall event before the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly
election, Arvind Kejriwal said, "The people of Goa have a choice between AAP and
BJP. If you want a clean, honest government, you can vote for AAP. The other
option is to vote for the BJP directly or indirectly. Indirect voting is when you vote for
the Congress, that Congress man will win and go to the BJP." Later on in September
2022, 8 out of 11 Congress MLAs joined BJP.

Chief Minister of Delhi

First term
Main article: First Kejriwal ministry

In the 2013, Delhi Legislative Assembly elections for all 70 seats, the
Bharatiya Janata Party won 31 seats, followed by Aam Aadmi Party with
28 seats. Kejriwal defeated incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit of
the Indian National Congress (INC), in her constituency of New
Delhi[49] by a margin of 25,864 votes.
AAP formed a minority government in the hung assembly, (claiming
support for the action gauged from opinion polls) with outside support
from the eight INC MLAs, one Janata Dal MLA and one independent
MLA. Kejriwal was sworn in as the second-youngest chief minister of
Delhi on 28 December 2013, after Chaudhary Brahm Prakash who
became chief minister at the age of 34. He was in charge of Delhi's
home, power, planning, finance, services and vigilance ministries.[55]
On 14 February 2014, he resigned as Chief Minister after failing to table
the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly. He recommended the
dissolution of the Assembly. Kejriwal blamed the Indian National
Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for stalling the anti-corruption
legislation and linked it with the government's decision to register a First
Information Report (FIR) against industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chairman
and managing director of Reliance Industries.[57] In April 2014 he said
that he had made a mistake by resigning without publicly explaining the
rationale behind his decision.[58]
Second term
Main article: Second Kejriwal ministry
Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party won 67 of the 70 constituencies in the
2015 Delhi Assembly elections, leaving the BJP with three seats and the
INC with none.[59] 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.[61][62] Since then his party has passed the Jan Lokpal
Bill though with some differences.
There has been a long-running dispute between Kejriwal's office and
that of the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi during Kejriwal's second term as
Chief Minister. Various issues have been involved, relating which office
has ultimate responsibility for various aspects of government, including
some significant public appointments. Manish Sisodia characterised it as
"a battle between the selected and the elected" and indicated after a
legal setback that the government was prepared to take the issues to
the Supreme Court of India.

Mohalla Clinics that are primary health centres in Delhi was first set up
by the Aam Aadmi Party government in 2015, and as of 2018, 187 such
clinics have been set up across the state and served more than 2 million
residents. The Government has kept a target of setting up 1000 such
clinics in the city before 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly Elections.
Mohalla Clinics offer a basic package of essential health
services including medicines, diagnostics, and consultation free of cost.
[67]
These clinics serve as the first point of contact for the population,
offer timely services, and reduce the load of referrals to secondary
and tertiary health facilities in the state. Beginning in October 2019, New
Delhi began rolling out free bus transit for women on the Delhi Transport
Corporation, with women travelling for free when using pink tickets
carrying a message from Kejriwal. He has been criticised for his
controversial remarks over Biharis and "outsiders".
Shunglu Committee submitted a report to LG of Delhi raising questions
over decisions of Government of Delhi.
Third term
Main article: Third Kejriwal ministry
AAP won 62 seats out of 70 in the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly
election. He took oath on 16 February 2020 as Delhi's chief minister for
a third time at Ramlila Maidan.

Conclusion

Arvind Kejriwal's journey from an activist to a political leader exemplifies

the power of perseverance and commitment to public service. His impact
on Indian politics goes beyond electoral victories, redefining the way
politics is perceived and practiced in the country. As he continues to
chart new territories, Arvind Kejriwal remains a symbol of hope and
change for millions of Indians.