He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur (chemical engineering) and IIM Ahmedabad.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is another IITian who is currently holding top public post. He is a gold medallist in electrical engineering from IIT-Delhi and IIM-Ahmedabad.
Kejriwal also has a fellow IITian for company in the Delhi Cabinet. Somnath Bharti, who did his MSc from IIT Delhi, won the Malviya Nagar assembly seat under which the campus of the prestigious institute falls.
On one occasion, six IITians, all in their 20s, as a group ventured into politics and also floated an outfit in 2005.
The engineers from IIT Mumbai and IIT Kanpur, all in their 20s, gave up bright careers and handsome pay packages, to launch ‘Lok Paritran Party (LPP) in Jodhpur.
This party contested in 2006 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections in 7 constituencies, but failed to pull crowd and drew a blank.
It Iater witnessed a vertical split and a Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD) was formed by a splinter group and came face-to-face in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. LPP office bearers termed the formation of BPD as “unfortunate and a part of political conspiracy”.
