Arvind Kejriwal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian politician
Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1968
Place of Birth: Hisar, Haryana, India
Profession: politician, bureaucrat
Nationality: India
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
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About Arvind Kejriwal
- Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician and a former bureaucrat who is the current and 7th Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015.
- He was also the Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to February 2014, stepping down after 49 days of assuming power.
- Currently, he is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, which won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a historic majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats.
- In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against corruption.
- The same year, after resigning from Government service, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO). Before joining politics, Kejriwal had worked in the Indian Revenue Service as a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi.
- Kejriwal is a graduate in Mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
- In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, which won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
- Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013.
- He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties.
- On 14 February 2015, he was sworn in as Chief Minister for a second term after his party's victory in the Delhi Legislative Assembly election.
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