Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is set to announce his resignation today. He has held the CM position since 2013, with intermittent breaks. In this story, let's take a look at his impressive educational background.
Arvind Kejriwal was born on 16 August 1968 in the Bhiwani district of Haryana in a Baniya family. His father was an electrical engineer.
Kejriwal spent his childhood mostly in north Indian towns such s Sonipat, Ghaziabad, and Hisar. He completed his primary education at ‘Campus School’ in Hisar and ‘Holy Child School in Sonipat.’
In 1985, Arvind Kejriwal took the IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) 563. Later, he graduated his Mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
He then joined Tata Steel in 1989 and was posted in Jamshedpur Bihar. But in 1992 he resigned and started preparing for the civil services exam.
Arvind Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) in 1995 after clearing the exam. In 2006, he resigned from his position as joint commissioner of Income Tax.
In 2012, he launched a political party and named it Aam Aadmi Party. The Party won in 2013 in the Delhi Legislative Assembly and he has been serving as CM since then.
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