Entrepreneur India 2013

Mr. Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party

Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician and social activist. Born in a village called Sivani in Hissar district of Haryana,Kejriwal is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He was an Indian Revenue Service, IRS, official before joining social and political activities.

The IRS officer-turned-anti-corruption crusader, Arvind Kejriwal won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act, 2005 and for activating India's Right to Information Act movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens of India to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people.

Kejriwal is also a Saathi (fellow) of the Association for India's Development, a Global Impact award winning NGO. In 2006 after resigning from IRS, he founded an NGO Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF) by donating his Magsaysay award money as (charity) Corpus fund. In November 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, whose vision is Swaraj.

Arvind Kejiriwal has been one of the strongest pillars in the Jan Lokpal Bill movement which started at 5 April 2011. This got immense support from all over the country and the government was forced to form a joint drafting committee for Lokpal Bill. Arvind Kejriwal along with Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan,Santosh Hegde and Kiran Bedi drafted the Jan Lokpal Bill. As the bill was edited and revised time to time after country wide public consultations, it was known as the Jan Lokpal Bill i.e. the People's Lokpal bill.