| Name(s) |
ARVIND KEJRIWAL |
| Date of
Birth |
August 16, 1968
- in Siwani, Bhiwani district, Haryana, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian social activist turned
politician |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 1999: While still
in service with the Income Tax Department, Kejriwal, Manish
Sisodia and others found a movement named Parivartan, in the
Sundar Nagar area of Delhi.
- January 2000:
Kejriwal took a leave from work to focus on Parivartan
Movement.
- December 14, 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.
- 2003: Parivartan exposed a
PDS scam, in which ration shop dealers were siphoning off
subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic officials.
- 2005: He 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.
- February 2006: He resigned
from his job and later that year he 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.
- December 2006: He
established the Public Cause Research Foundation, 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. He 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.
- 2008: Parivartan once again
exposed a PDS scam, in which ration shop dealers were
siphoning off subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic
officials.
- 2010: He protested against
corruption in the Commonwealth Games and advocated
appointment of public ombudsman - Lokpal at the Centre and
Lokayuktas in states.
- 2011: He joined several
other activists, including Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi, to
form the India Against Corruption (IAC) group. The IAC
demanded enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill, which would
result in a strong ombudsman. The campaign evolved into the
2011 Indian anti-corruption movement.
- November 2012 - He launched the Aam Aadmi Party.
- 2013 - He defeated Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit in the 2013 Delhi
Legislative Assembly elections.
- December 08, 2013: He
became the Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for New
Delhi on this day.
- December 28, 2013 - He took over the
office as the Chief Minister of Delhi.
- February 14, 2014 - He resigned from
the office of th Chief Minister of Delhi, stating he did so
because of his minority government's inability to pass his
proposed Jan Lokpal and anti-corruption legislation due to a
lack of support from other political parties.
- 2015 - His party won the 2015 Delhi
Assembly elections with a majority, obtaining 67 out of 70
assembly seats.
- February 14, 2015 - He was sworn in as
Chief Minister for a second term after his party's victory
in the Assembly election.
- March 02, 2016: Delhi High
Court asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and suspended BJP
MP Kirti Azad to file their written statements in a civil
defamation suit of Rs 5 crore filed by DDCA for their
alleged remarks against the cricket body regarding its
functioning and finances.
- March 2016: By this time,
he had 6 active defamation cases against him in addition to
3 still in application phase.
- April 07, 2016: Arvind
Kejriwal and his 4 colleagues got bail from the Court in the
criminal defamation case filed against them by Arun Jaitley.
Next hearing is to be held on May 19, 2016.
- October 2016: He released a
video asking the Prime Minister of India to prove the
authenticity of Surgical Strikes on Pakistan in response to
Uri Attack. Pakistani media hailed Kejriwal as their hero
for this action by him.
- December 15, 2016: On this
day, he tweeted that "Modi Ji 12 pass hai, uski baad degree
farji hai" (i.e. Modi ji is educated upto 12th standard of
schooling and after that he received fake degrees). Based on
this, Assam BJP leader, Surya Rongphar, filed a defamation
case against him.
- January 30, 2017: The first
hearing in the defamation case of Dec , 2016 was held on
this day, which he could not attend and sought adjournment.
- March 30, 2017: Lieutenant Governor
of Delhi, Anil Baijal, asked the Chief Secretary to recover
Rs 97 crore from the party for advertisements projecting
Arvind Kejriwal.
- April 06, 2017: The
3-member Shunglu Committee, set up by Delhi's former L.G.
Najeeb Jung to look into the decisions taken by the Delhi
government, has pointed out "gross abuse of power" by it.
This committee was set up after the Delhi high court ruled
that the LG was Delhi's administrator and said decisions
taken by the city government without consulting him were
illegal. Kejriwal and his colleagues, howver, have refuted
these charges.
- April 07, 2017: Diphu Court
said the bailable warrant of arrest of Rs10,000 was issued
against the Delhi CM taking into cognizance that the accused
had failed to appear before the court on January 30. The
court fixed May 08, 2017 as the next date
of hearing.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He is the National convener of
the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
- A Mechanical Engineering
graduate of the Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur.
- He also worked for the Indian
Revenue Service (IRS) as a Joint
Commissioner in the Income Tax
Department.
- 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).
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