Facts About Arvind Kejriwal

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  1. Arvind Kejriwal was born on August 16, 1968 in the village of Siwani in Hisar, India.
  2. His parents are Gobind Ram Kejriwal (Father) and Gita Devi (Mother).
  3. His father was an electrical engineer who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology.
  4. He has a younger sister and brother.
  5. He was educated at Campus School in Hisar.
  6. Arvind Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns such as Sonepat, Ghaziabad and Hisar.
  7. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.
  8. Kejriwal cleared IIT in first attempt, just after school in 1985.
  9. Kejriwal initially wanted to be a doctor. But he rebelled against the family to enter the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, where he opted to study mechanical engineering.
  10. He started his career in 1989 and worked for Tata Steel. He left that job in 1992.
  11. Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1995 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination in his first shot.
  12. Before leaving the Tata and joining the IRS (Indian Revenue Service), he met Mother Teresa who asked him to work at Kalighat in Kolkata. He worked for Mother Teresa for two months.
  13. His wife's name is Sunita Kejriwal, who is also an IRS officer and his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie and the National Academy of Direct Taxes in Nagpur. The couple have a daughter and a son.
  14. Presently Sunita is working as an Additional Director in Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
  15. He lives at Kaushambi in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. It is just at the outskirts of Delhi.
  16. Kejriwal thought he would be a misfit in the IRS service, but did not leave the job immediately.
  17. He also traveled inside Bodoland of Assam when militancy was at its peak.
  1. Arvind Kejriwal is a Vegetarian.
  2. He is the youngest Chief Minister of Delhi.
  3. He has authored a book titled "Swaraj" which was published in 2012.
  4. Arvind Kejriwal has received following awards
                o     Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership. He donated the prize                        money that he received from the Ramon Magsaysay award to a NGO.
o    Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award
o    The CNN-IBN, Indian of the Year Award in 2006
o    Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kharagpur for eminent leadership in 2009
o    NDTV Indian of the Year Award in 2011
o    IIM Gold Medal

22. Arvind Kejriwal is the founder of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the political party of a common man. He established the AAP in November 2012.
23. He is a fan of Aamir Khan and admires his work and enjoys comedies as well.
24. At work, he refused to have a peon, cleaned his own desk, emptied his dustbin and studiously avoided office get-togethers
25. His sun sign is Gemini.

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