On Thursday night, March 21, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Kejriwal was questioned by the ED for two hours prior to his arrest.
The second Chief Minister to be taken into custody by the ED is Kejriwal. Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of Jharkhand, was detained earlier on January 31. But after Soren submitted his resignation to the governor, he was taken into custody by the ED. Tell us about Kejriwal's journey from IIT graduation to civil service selection and subsequent entry into politics.
Haryana native who completed IIT-UPSC
On August 16, 1968, Arvind Kejriwal was born in the Haryanan village of Kheda, in the Siwani district. After passing the 1985 IIT-JEE exam, Arvind earned a mechanical engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur. Kejriwal spent roughly three years working for Tata Steel after graduating from college in 1989.
Following this, he left his position in 1992 to get ready for the Civil Services Test. Kejriwal cleared the UPSC test in 1995. In the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), he was chosen. He was then given the position of Assistant Commissioner in the Department of Income Taxation.
Kejriwal asked for a two-year paid leave of absence in 2000 in order to pursue further education. Kejriwal was granted vacation with the understanding that he would not quit the position until he returned to work for a minimum of three years. He will get paid the wage that was given to him at this time if he does so.
quit in 2006. Two years later, in 2002, Arvind Kejriwal took over, but he wasn't officially appointed for a year. He did, however, continue to get paid during this time. Kejriwal was therefore approved for an unpaid leave of absence of eighteen months. Arvind Kejriwal left his position as New Delhi's Joint Income Tax Commissioner in 2006.
Nonetheless, the central government asserted that they had broken the 2000 agreement by ceasing to work for three years. Arvind Kejriwal paid the government Rs 9 lakh 27 thousand 787 in 2011 with the assistance of his pals.
Arvind Kejriwal received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 in recognition of his anti-corruption efforts.
2011 saw the formation of the India Against Corruption Group and a hunger strike.
In order to push for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill, social activist Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare founded the India Against Corruption Group (IAC) in 2011. In protest against the Jan Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare went on a hunger strike at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on August 16. This trend persisted until August 28.
At the time, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Kumar Vishwas, Sanjay Singh, and Manish Sisodia were key players in this movement. Arvind Kejriwal became the face of this movement after Anna Hazare.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal established his political party on October 2, 2012, and went on to form the government in 2013. The AAP, or Aam Aadmi Party, was established on November 24, 2012. Arvind Kejriwal, a former Congress chief of state, defeated Sheila Dikshit in the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections, which were fought by the Aam Aadmi Party.
Despite the Aam Aadmi Party's lack of majority in this election, Arvind Kejriwal became Delhi's chief minister as a result of Congress's outside support for the party rather than its entry into the administration. Then, in 2015, elections were held, and the Aam Aadmi Party made it into the assembly with an unprecedented 67 seats.
Additionally, Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party took home 62 of 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. On February 16, 2020, at Ramlila Maidan, Kejriwal took the oath of office as Chief Minister for the third time.
In 1995, Kejriwal's batchmate Sunita got married to Kejriwal's wife, an IRS worker. Sunita Kejriwal had removed VRS from her service in 2016. She worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). Pulkit, Arvind Kejriwal's son, and Harshita, his daughter, are his two children. Kejriwal's daughter played football and graduated from IIT as well. Meanwhile, Pulkit, Kejriwal's son, is a college student.
