As a father, his face was beaming with pride as news poured in that his daughter, Harshita, has secured 3322 rank in JEE advance examination.
She had scored 96 per cent in her class XII CBSE exam and wanted to study in the coveted Indian Institute of Technology. She was a student of science stream.
‘My parents are my role models. I would like to pursue a course in one of the IITs. Now, my aim is to get admission in an IIT,’ Harshita had said. She is a pass-out of Delhi Public School, Noida.
The AAP leader has had a very busy 2014. But Harshita insists that his frenetic activity caused absolutely no disruption to her studies. She had said in an interview with a private news channel: ‘I would go to my room or whenever there was any meeting at my home, I’d go to my aunt’s in Kaushambi,’ she says. ‘I’d read newspapers during my breaks.’
Her father, had beaten three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency of New Delhi by some 22,000 votes in a mega political bender, which has been considered by many as no ordinary task.
Kejriwal formed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after he split with his one-time partner Anna Hazare.
In 2011, they invigorated middle class India with a movement demanding the introduction of the new anti-graft Lokpal Bill.