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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is about to complete his first five-year term in the office soon, as the NCT of Delhi goes for polls on February 8th. The Aam Aadmi Party won 67 out of the 70 seats in 2015 Assembly elections. In the past five years, his government has majorly worked on the education and healthcare sector. In a bid to make the daily commute cheaper, he tried getting metro rides for women free, but that failed. Instead, the Delhi government made DTC bus travel for women free. It will be interesting to see if Arvind Kejriwal and his party are able to repeat the performance of 2015. 
 
According to IANS-CVoter survey, Kejriwal emerged as the choice of the majority for the Delhi Chief Minister's post in the February 8 Assembly elections. Kejriwal got 67.6 per cent of the votes in the IANS-CVoter Delhi poll tracker. The other option in the list was Union Minister and BJP MP Harsh Vardhan, who was the choice of 11.9 per cent people.
 
Kejriwal is an IITian, and former IRS officer. Arvind Kejriwal's entry into politics was much-talked-about, even as he has now been well-grounded in this field for over five years. The founder and national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Kejriwal came into the limelight after receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006. He had been recognised for empowering citizens to fight corruption and encouraging the Right to Information (RTI) movement.
 
In 2011, Kejriwal, along with activist Anna Hazare and others formed the group India Against Corruption (IAC), which protested against the government's delay in enacting the Jan Lokpal Bill (citizen's ombudsman Bill). Although the movement failed, Kejriwal's struggle won him admirers across the globe. He went on to venture into active politics by forming the AAP, which won the Delhi Assembly election for the first time in 2013. Kejriwal became the CM, but the government fell in under 50 days. Following over a year of President’s rule in the capital, the next Assembly polls in 2015 saw Kejriwal’s AAP returning to power with a landslide win in Delhi — 67 of the 70 seats. He again became the CM and has been in that position since.
 
In 2014, Kejriwal unsuccessfully contested against the BJP’s then prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, from Varanasi in UP. Kejriwal and his government have been at constant loggerheads with the Narendra Modi government and the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor, over issues revolving around public appointments, the responsibility of the UT and the Centre, etc.
 
For the coming Lok Sabha elections, Arvind Kejriwal is seen as an important leader for galvanising Opposition forces against the BJP and its allies. Also, from the 2015 Delhi election instance, Kejriwal has proved that he is capable of throwing surprises, especially when he is underestimated.

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Seeking bail for the jailed Delhi CM, Singhvi submitted that Kejriwal is a constitutional functionary and was not a flight risk

Updated On: 05 Sep 2024 | 12:51 PM IST

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Updated On: 22 Jul 2024 | 10:06 PM IST

Delhi liquor policy scam updates: Enforcement Directorate says it will file the prosecution complaint today, naming the AAP as an accused

Updated On: 17 May 2024 | 6:09 PM IST

The elephant in the room is Rs 7.5 trillion a year in revenues to the exchequer

Updated On: 27 Mar 2024 | 3:25 PM IST

Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for Kejriwal, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud

Updated On: 22 Mar 2024 | 12:53 PM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 following his plea for relief against coercive action by the ED in the Delhi High Court was denied

Updated On: 22 Mar 2024 | 12:09 PM IST

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Updated On: 27 Mar 2024 | 12:24 PM IST

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said it has collected more than 10 lakh signatures during its door-to-door campaign against the arrests of its leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain.

Updated On: 10 Apr 2023 | 2:01 PM IST

Expressing concern over their safety, a delegation of the city's lawyers on Saturday met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and pressed for an act for their protection

Updated On: 08 Apr 2023 | 11:37 PM IST

BJP's name will be etched in history if it demolishes its office to build schools but is doing the opposite which is very painful, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday

Updated On: 08 Apr 2023 | 4:46 PM IST

If some children are weak in studies, extra classes will be organised for them, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday, responding to a BJP leader who posted mark sheets of students

Updated On: 08 Apr 2023 | 3:42 PM IST

Corrupt leaders don't go visiting schools for inspection at 6 am, he said

Updated On: 08 Apr 2023 | 3:01 PM IST

As a matter of fact, the file was deliberately kept pending with the government and was sent to the LG on March 28 this year, over four months after the high court was misled with false assertions

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 10:15 PM IST

Delhi Education Minister Atishi on Friday directed the officials to initiate action against private schools that allegedly forced parents of students to buy expensive books

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 4:22 PM IST

Liquor shops in Delhi have limited stocking space, and a low number of shops in the city naturally means a low total stock holding

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 2:55 PM IST

During the meeting, Kejriwal said even the best schools of MCD fail to match the standard of Delhi government schools

Updated On: 06 Apr 2023 | 9:58 PM IST

Kejriwal was referring the AAP government's 'Dilli ki Yogshala' programme that offered free yoga classes and was launched in the national capital in 2021

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 7:02 PM IST

Addressing the concerns of the teachers, Atishi said that empowering government school teachers has always remained the topmost priority for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 11:35 PM IST

On Monday, his party colleague Ajit Pawar said people voted for Modi in the 2014 general elections as he created a charisma that the BJP did not have and not his degree

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 10:20 PM IST