TopicArvind Kejriwal

Topic: Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal is a bureaucrat-turned-politician. He is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the seventh Chief Minister of Delhi. Before entering politics, Kejriwal pursued a career as a civil servant after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur with a degree in mechanical engineering. He later joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS).

Kejriwal founded the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012, after splitting from the India Against Corruption movement, which helped him rise to prominence as an activist riding the wave of widespread public anger over corruption charges on the then Congress-led UPA government.

The AAP first came to power in 2013 after forming a coalition government with outside support from the Congress, but that government soon lost confidence. In the fresh elections, AAP swept to power and Kejriwal joined office as CM with a majority in 2015. The party has since grown and increased its footprint in neighbouring states like Punjab.

EVMs or Canadian Ministers, Amarinder Singh was forthright & unsparing

ThePrint Team - 13 April, 2017

Singh lived up to his reputation of being forthright and unsparing as he spoke extensively on a range of issues – from beef bans to alcohol restrictions, Punjab’s drugs problem, sedition and the future of his party.

To go after Modi or not? Congress struggles with new doubt

Ruhi Tewari - 11 April, 2017

A section in Congress believes that attacking PM Modi has not helped the party- and it needs to change its communication strategy.

Anti-establishment conformist’s age

Shekhar Gupta - 11 February, 2017

Even as it seeks political power, AAP has maintained anti-establishmentarianism as its core.

Writings on the Punjab wall

Shekhar Gupta - 4 February, 2017

Voters don't care if AAP is a party of outsiders, AAP is set to rise as a national force.

Discourse on Delhi’s new daredevils

Shekhar Gupta - 30 July, 2016

Arvind Kejriwal may feel victimised by the Modi government but he is revelling in it too much, risking a constitutional breakdown

I, me, myself, to the power of three

Shekhar Gupta - 19 December, 2015

The political price of Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal referring to themselves third person.

A storyline for economic right

Shekhar Gupta - 26 February, 2015

For the Right, it's not that its economics is more flawed than that of the Left. It's just that it has inadequate salesmen of their new ideas. These include Modi.

Waking up to a new ‘usual’

Shekhar Gupta - 12 February, 2015

AAP is evolving like the Congress did in its early days, having the right, left, even libertarians under its umbrella in pursuit of a common idea, not ideology.

Changing course with urban discourse

Shekhar Gupta - 5 February, 2015

Kejriwal is fighting Hindutva, Moditva, minorityism with class. If he succeeds, it will be the first new big idea in our politics after Mandal, Mandir and Moditva

East to west, money defines politics in India’s double-income, no ideology city of ‘freedom fighters’

SGIN - 30 January, 2015

Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant, freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out the havenots, BJP its old, pushy made-gooders, and Congress none at all.

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Topic: Arvind Kejriwal

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