Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia

Manish Sisodia

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (right), with Deputy Chief Minister &amp; Finance Minister Manish Sisodia, leaves for the Budget session of the Assembly, in New Delhi, on Monday

In this file photo, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia addresses a press conference in New Delhi.

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	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 &mdash; finance, education, planning, urban development, revenue, services, local bodies, land &amp; buildings, higher education, training &amp; technical education, vigilance, cooperative societies, information technology, and information &amp; 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.</div>
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	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.</div>
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	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&rsquo;s (BJP&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Vinod Kumar Binny by over 24,000 votes. Sisodia previously established a non-governmental organisation &lsquo;Kabir&rsquo; in Delhi to spread awareness about RTI also became an active volunteer of NGO Parivartan.</div>
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	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.<br />
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	In 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, he again defeated Ravinder Singh Negi, a BJP candidate by over 3,000 votes.</div>

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