ARAVIND KEJRIWAL was born in SIWANI village in BHIWANI district inthe state,HARYANA on 16 August,1968 to Gobind Ram Kejriwal & Gita Devii,a well educated and a well_off couple.
his father was an electrical engioneer,graduated form the BIT(BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY).
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL completed his Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology,kharagpur and from then he worked for TATA STEEL.later in 1992,ARAVIND KEJRIWAL left that job,having previously taken leave of absence in order to study for the civil services examination,and spent some time in kolkata,at the Ramakrishna Mission in North-east India and at Nehru Yuva Kendra.
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL is married to Sunitha,who is also an IRS officer and also his batchmate from National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie and the National Academy of Direct Taxes in nagpur.
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL beleive " CHANGE BEGINS WITH SMALL THINGS ".In december 1999,while still in service with the income tax department,he helped found a movement named " PARIVARTAN " (which means CHANGE ),focused mainly on assisting citizens in navigating income tax,electricity and food ration matterts in parts of delhi.
Together with MANISH SISODIA and ABHINANDAN SEKHRI,ARAVIND KEJRIWAL Established the Public Cause Research Foundation in December 2006,donating prize money he had received from the Ramon Magasaysay Award as a seed fund.this new body paid the employees of PARIVARTAN.
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL was the civil society representative member of the committe constitued by the Goverment of India to draft a JAN LOKPAL BILL,following a campaign for introduction of such legislation that featured ANNA HAZARE.
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL established the AAP in novembe 2012 as he beleived that electoral politics was the next logical step in the fight against corruption.the party name reflects the phrase AAM AADMI or COMMON MAN.
in the delhi election,ARAVIND KEJRIWAL defeated the incumbent Chief-minister SHEILA DIKSHITH in her own constituency of NEW DELHI,by a margin of 25,864 votes.ARAVIND KEJRIWAL 's party as awhole won 28 of the total 70 available seats,by listing in second place.
ARAVIND KEJRIWAL was sworn in as the second-youngest chief-minister of delhi on 28 december 2013,after CHAUDHARY BRAHM PRAKASH.
