TIME names Arvind Kejriwal as 4th Most Influential Person of the World

Famous TIME Magazine has named Social Activist Arvind Kejriwal as the 4th most influential person of the world on the basis of Online Votes received in an open poll.

The First position is occupied by Mohammaned Morsi, followed by Markus Persson, Kim Dotcom and Arvind Kejriwal.

The poll was conducted to decide TIME 100 for the Year 2013. The Final list of Top 100 would be declared on April 18th 2013. Kejriwal is the only Indian to figure in the Top 100 List for this year.

Arvind Kejriwal was an  Indian Revenue Service, IRS, official before joining social and political activities. He is also the winner of  Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India’s Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people.

In 2006 after resigning from IRS, he founded an NGO Public Cause Research Foundation by donating his Magasaysay award money as corpus fund. In November 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, whose vision is Swaraj.