Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, former Indian Revenue Service officer and right-to-information activist. He founded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2012 and has been its national convenor since. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi from December 2013 to February 2014 and again from 2015 to September 2024.
A mechanical engineer from IIT Kharagpur, he received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for his RTI work with the Parivartan movement, and was a leading face of the 2011 India Against Corruption movement. Under him AAP won landslides in Delhi in 2015 and 2020 and formed the government in Punjab in 2022. In 2024 he became the first sitting chief minister in India to be arrested. He resigned as CM after getting bail, and lost his own seat when the BJP won the 2025 Delhi election. In February 2026 a Delhi court discharged him in the CBI's excise policy case.
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