Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician who is the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. He previously served as Chief Minister from December 2013 to February 2014, stepping down after 49 days. He is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). His party won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats.

Kejriwal is a mechanical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and worked for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as a joint commissioner in the Income Tax Department.

In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in the grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and the party won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013. He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties.

Ram Jethmalani

Ram Jethmalani born 14 September 1923, is an Indian lawyer and politician. He has served as India's Union Law Minister and as Chairman of Bar Council of India. He has represented a sweep of cases from the high-profile to the controversial for which he has often faced severe criticism. He is the highest paid Indian lawyer He has always claimed that 90% of the cases he fights is free of cost.

Ram Jethmalani is known as a maverick lawyer with many distinctions to his credit. He obtained a law degree at an early age of 17 and started practising law in his hometown (in today's Pakistan) until the partition of India. He married Durga Jethmalani and later, his second wife, Ratna Jethmalani. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugee and he began his life afresh with his family. He has two sons and two daughters, of whom, Mahesh Jethmalani and Rani Jethmalani are also well known lawyers.

He was elected a member of parliament in 6th and 7th Lok Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Mumbai. He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development during the Prime Ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later on contested election in General Elections of 2004 from Lucknow constituency. However in 2010 he came back to BJP and was elected to Rajya Sabha on its ticket from Rajasthan. He has also been criticised as being opportunistic because of this.

Arvind

Arvind, a common male name of Indian origin, means "lotus" in the Sanskrit language. Its variants include Aravinda, Aravind, Arvin, Aravindan, Arahvinth, Aravindh (in South India), and Aurobindo (in Bengali). It is used by the followers of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Sikhism, and Islam.

Meaning

Arvind means lotus in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the white lotus, on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity - Lakshmi - sits. It could also refer to the Sanskrit term Aravindakshah (meaning the "lotus eyed one"), the 347th name used to describe the Hindu god Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama.

Arvind is also a name of the Hindu god Shiva, who is depicted as bearing a crescent moon on his head. (Araav means top of something e.g. The Aravalli Range literally meaning line of peaks, a range of mountains. + Indu means moon.)

Aravinth is also believed to be the name for a minor god, Aravinth, one of a number of gods who lived in the court of Indra the ancient Indian god of thunder who was said to be the King of the gods. Other gods of Indra's court include Vayu - the god of wind and Agni - the god of fire. It is believed that Aravinth was the god of wit, intelligence and shrewd scholarship, before the arrival of the trinity - Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma in Hindu religion. Some stories say Aravinth often visited earth in his avatar form, testing and rewarding men for their wit.