Manish Sisodia

Manish Sisodia

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  • Name:
  • Manish Sisodia
  • Born:
  • January 5, 1972

Manish Sisodia Biography

Manish Sisodia is an Indian politician from Delhi associated with Aam Aadmi Party. A prominent political figure of present India, he currently serves as Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi. He assumed the power on 14 February 2015. He currently holds many portfolio of Delhi cabinet including – Finance and Planning, Revenue, Administrative Reforms, Educations, Power, IT, Technical Education etc. Sisodia was a social activist and is also known as a journalist. When Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister of Delhi for the first time in 2013, Manish also served as a cabinet minister. He is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Aam Aadmi Party.

 

Manish was born on 5 January 1972 in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh into a Rajput family. He completed post graduate diploma in Journalism and started his career as a journalist in the town of Pilkhuva. Since 1997 till 2005 he worked as a documentary film maker, a TV news channel and news reader. He launched his own NGO, Kabir in Delhi which campaigned for the right to information. He founded Public Cause Research Foundation in 2006 along with Arvind Kejriwal and Abhinandan Sekhri. He also got involved with the campaigns for Jan Lokpal bill.

 

When AAP was formed in 2012, he joined the party and actively worked aside Arvind Kejriwal. He is also known for excellent speech delivery skills. In 2013 Delhi Assembly election he got elected to state assembly for the first time and joined Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet. He was assigned the portfolios - Education, PWD, Urban development, local bodies and land and building for the brief term of AAP. When he was elected for the second time in 2015, he was assigned the charge of Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, apart from the portfolios of Finance and Planning, Revenue, Power, Education, IT etc.

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Updated: April 03, 2016

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