If you follow news regularly, then by now the unmistakable passion in Arvind Kejriwal's voice as he talks about fighting corruption and changing the way the country is governed, must have got ingrained in your mind. It is his impatient quest for change that makes him India's angriest middle-aged man. Here's all you need to know about him:
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It is not that this 44-year-old Haryana-born activist was an unknown entity before. But today, Arvind Kejriwal is a name that politicians (even though they don't admit), secretly fear.
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An IIT-trained mechanical engineer, Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) in 1995 but resigned after five years of service.
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While he was an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi, Kejriwal ran a non-governmental organisation called Parivartan.
He won the prestigious Magsaysay Award in 2006 for Emergent Leadership and was also instrumental in campaigning to have the Central RTI Act passed.
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Even before he attained celebrity status during Anna Hazare's fast against corruption, he was one of the brains behind the India Against Corruption campaign.
He is considered the brain behind the Anna phenomenon. He along with Hazare, shook the government as he enthused sections of the Indian population to fight against corruption.
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Not content to only preach from a pulpit, Arvind Kejriwal announced the formation of a political party that led to a split between him and Anna Hazare.
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Kejriwal lives in Kaushambi, just outside of Delhi, with his wife Sunita and two children. His wife (who is a former colleague) works in the income tax department.
