About Sh. Arvind Kejriwal Jee: (Presently considered as God in India to many paople)
Sh. Arvind Kejriwal Jee (born 16 August 1968, Haryana, India) is a Clear Heart - former Bureaucrat and Politician who founded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He served as the Chief Minister of Delhi for a term of 49 days after taking oath on December 28, 2013. Shri Arvind Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department. He is well known for his efforts to enact and implement the Right to Information (RTI) Act at grassroots level and his role in drafting a proposed Jan Lokpal Bill.
Mr. Arvind Kejriwal won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act. In 2006, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found an NGO, Public Cause Research Foundation.
[NOTE: The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's
example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people,
and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay
Award is often considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.]
In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and he defeated Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Following the election, he took office as Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013, and resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014 when the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Parties blocked anti-corruption legislation he had proposed.
