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Manish Sisodia

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Who is Manish Sisodia

A senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Manish Sisodia is the deputy chief minister of Delhi in the Arvind Kejriwal-led government. Sisodia is in charge of several important departments — finance, education, planning, urban development, revenue, services, local bodies, land & buildings, higher education, training & technical education, vigilance, cooperative societies, information technology, and information & publicity. Importantly, he supervises all departments that have not been allotted to any other minister and is considered the architect of the AAP initiative of overhauling the education system in Delhi government schools.
 
Before joining the AAP, Sisodia worked as a journalist with Zee News and All India Radio from 1996 to 2005. He later quit journalism to take part in the agitation for Right to Information (RTI) and played a significant role in laying the foundation for the Jan Lokpal movement, led by Anna Hazare. In 2006, Sisodia founded the Public Cause Research Foundation along with Kejriwal.
 
In 2012, he became a member of the political affairs committee and a year later he was elected as a Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Nakul Bhardwaj by 11,478 votes. In the 2015 Delhi elections, which was swept by the AAP with a win in 67 of the 70 constituencies, Sisodia was re-elected to the Delhi Assembly from Patparganj in East Delhi, beating the BJP’s Vinod Kumar Binny by over 24,000 votes. Sisodia previously established a non-governmental organisation ‘Kabir’ in Delhi to spread awareness about RTI also became an active volunteer of NGO Parivartan.
 
One of the oldest associates of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Sisodia holds a diploma in journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Both he and Kejriwal are the founding members of the AAP.

In 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, he again defeated Ravinder Singh Negi, a BJP candidate by over 3,000 votes.

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Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 5:36 PM IST
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Delhi elections: Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia lose; Atishi wins by a narrow margin

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 2:08 PM IST

Conceding his loss, Sisodia said that BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who is poised for victory in Jangpura, will take up the concerns of the people

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 12:42 PM IST

Delhi Assembly elections 2025: The 10 am trends show that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken the lead in 37 seats, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has 20

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 10:19 AM IST

Delhi's Jangpura sees a fierce three-way contest as AAP's Manish Sisodia faces BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah and Congress' Farhad Suri in the 2025 Assembly election

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 11:35 AM IST

Patparganj Assembly election result 2025: AAP's Avadh Ojha faces Anil Chaudhury from the Congress and Ravindra Singh Negi of the BJP on this seat

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 8:45 AM IST

As Delhi awaits its 2025 election results, all eyes are on AAP's survival, BJP's return, and Congress' struggle. Will Kejriwal secure a win, or is a political shift is underway?

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 6:00 AM IST

While the AAP is aiming for a third consecutive term, the BJP and Congress are determined to regain lost ground

Updated On: 08 Feb 2025 | 7:45 AM IST

A decade of prioritising national ambitions over implementation has destroyed Kejriwal's chance of emerging as the progressive alternative to Modi

Updated On: 06 Feb 2025 | 8:16 AM IST

Shah said Sisodia, who is fighting elections from the Jangpura Assembly seat, is the only education minister in the country who went to jail in a liquor scam

Updated On: 03 Feb 2025 | 1:46 PM IST

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Updated On: 01 Feb 2025 | 11:09 PM IST

Manish Sisodia exuded confidence and said that the public was very happy with AAP's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and waned to bring him back to power

Updated On: 01 Feb 2025 | 6:58 AM IST

The money laundering case stems from a CBI case lodged after Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena recommended a probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the excise policy

Updated On: 24 Jan 2025 | 6:59 PM IST

Sisodia further alleged the BJP could be proved as bigger threat than Ravan for poor, labourers and slum dwellers

Updated On: 21 Jan 2025 | 12:25 PM IST

Delhi BJP Chief also posed allegations on AAP leader Manish Sisodia, claiming that the latter took a loan of Rs 1.5 crore from three private individuals for his son's studies

Updated On: 18 Jan 2025 | 1:37 PM IST

The Union Home Ministry has cleared the ED to prosecute Arvind Kejriwal over alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy, with charges linking him to a Rs 100 crore bribe

Updated On: 15 Jan 2025 | 10:49 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi has raised over Rs 17 lakh through crowdfunding for her election campaign from the Kalkaji constituency. Within hours of launching the donation platform

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 10:30 PM IST

The Delhi high court criticised the AAP-led Delhi government for delay in the submission of a crucial CAG report on the liquor scam, raising doubts about their handling of the matter

Updated On: 13 Jan 2025 | 1:46 PM IST

The CAG report reveals a Rs 2,026 crore loss in the Delhi liquor policy scam, highlighting corruption, flawed licensing, ignored expert advice, and arrests of AAP leaders

Updated On: 11 Jan 2025 | 2:14 PM IST

According to a statement, around 1,000 students from across India applied for the internship and 100 were selected to manage various aspects of the election campaign

Updated On: 07 Jan 2025 | 7:37 AM IST