Arvind Kejriwal government’s journey through 48 days

Arvind Kejriwal, who pledged to root out corruption after steering AAP to power in Delhi, was a man in a hurry and set a scorching pace to try to fulfill his anti-graft legislative agenda but his tumultuous journey as Chief Minister ended in seven weeks.
Arvind Kejriwal shows his resignation letter from the window of AAP office in in New Delhi on Friday. (IE Photo: Praveen Khanna)

As the controversy over the Jan Lokpal Bill deepened with Lt Governor Najeeb Jung advising the Delhi Assembly Speaker against allowing its tabling and Congress and BJP opposing it, Kejriwal stuck to his word today by carrying out the threat to quit if the proposed legislation did not get through even at the introduction stage.
Arvind Kejriwal addresses the floor of Delhi Assembly on Friday. (IE Photo: Oinam Anand)

Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party have been in the news even before their stint with governance in Delhi.
Arvind Kejriwal addresses the floor of Delhi Assembly on Friday. (IE Photo: Oinam Anand)

Emerging as a mascot of an alternative brand of politics, the 45-year-old engineer-turned-civil servant changed the political discourse with a stunning showing of his fledgling Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) in the December Assembly polls that brought Congress' 15-year rule to an end.
Arvind Kejriwal supporters at AAP office in New Delhi on Friday. (IE Photo: Praveen Khanna)

Leading from the front, Kejriwal had earlier anchored his campaign in an unconventional way to see it emerge as the second largest party in Delhi with 28 seats. AAP formed the government on December 28 with outside support from Congress.
Arvind Kejriwal at a public meeting organised at the party office in Ghaziabad. (IE Photo: Gajendra Yadav)

With interests of the common man at the core of AAP's agenda, Kejriwal's triumph over three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit earned him the tag of 'giant killer'.
Arvind Kejriwal along with six ministers at the Ramlila Maidan after being elected as CM in New Delhi. (IE Photo: Renuka Puri)

Often called the anti-corruption man, the diminutive and bespectacled IITian and a former tax official catapulted himself leading a people's movement to check graft and get wide support.
Arvind Kejriwal's household things being shifted to his new house at Tilak Lane in New Delhi. (IE Photo: Prem Nath Pandey)

Formed in November 2012, AAP cemented its place in politics, tapping students, farmers, civil rights groups, NGOs, social activists, women’s groups and the urban youth to emerge as a force.
Arvind Kejriwal's first day in the Delhi CM office. (IE Photo: Praveen Khanna)

Born on August 16, 1968 in Hisar in Haryana to Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, Kejriwal sent the entire political spectrum into a tizzy, attacking both BJP and Congress on the issues of corruption, exorbitant rise in power and water tariff, safety of women and had managed to make a dent in the vote banks of both the parties.
Arvind Kejriwal with the MLAs after vote of confidence at Vidhan Sabha in New Delhi. (IE Photo: Prem Nath Pandey)

Kejriwal won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006 for his contribution to the enactment of the Right to Information Act. In 2006, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund for an NGO, Public Cause Research Foundation.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal reacts as he celebrates with supporters the party's excellent performance in Delhi Assembly elections, in New Delhi. (IE Photo: Neeraj Priyadarshi)

In yet another populist measure, it decided that consumers who did not pay their electricity bills as part of AAP's power agitation will have to shell out only half of their total dues, a move that cost the exchequer Rs six crore.
Sweets being distributed at AAP office in Ghaziabad. (IE Photo: Prem Nath Pandey)