"My IIT-JEE Rank Was...": Arvind Kejriwal Pitches Formula To "Make Each Indian Rich"

At NDTV Townhall in Gujarat, where AAP is presenting itself as alternative, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal makes education the main pitch

In Gujarat to present the Aam Aadmi Party as an alternative in the polls this year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today recalled his IIT-JEE success and made a rank-by-rank comparison with a student in Delhi — stressing his claim that "education alone can make India the best in the world".

"I was ranked 563 in IIT-JEE," the Delhi Chief Minister said, "This morning in Delhi I met a security guard's son from a government school who's got Rank 569. His father gets a salary Rs 12,000 a month. When this boy passes out of IIT, he will have a starting salary of Rs 2 lakh a month. That will be the end of poverty for that family. If we do it for all our kids, each and every family in India will become rich... within a generation."

He was speaking at an NDTV Townhall in Ahmedabad, where he's been spending a lot of time campaigning to unseat the BJP in the assembly polls due in December. 

Earlier today, he was in Delhi to meet government school students who've cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).  "It was an emotional moment for me as I am an IIT ex-student. This country has given me a lot," he said, "And it has been my dream since, that just like me, all of India's children, even the poorest of the poor, get the same facilities."