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Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician and former civil servant who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi from 28 December 2013 to 14 February 2014. He is the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party. Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He worked for the Indian Revenue Service as a Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department. He is known for his efforts to enact and implement the Right to Information Act at the grassroots level and his role in drafting a proposed Jan Lokpal Bill.
In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organization. In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and he defeated Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit 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 government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties.
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