Manish Sisodia
Manish Sisodia | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Official portrait, 2020 | |||||||||||
| 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi | |||||||||||
| In office 14 February 2015 – 28 February 2023 | |||||||||||
| Lieutenant Governor | |||||||||||
| Chief Minister | Arvind Kejriwal | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position Established | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||
| In office 10 February 2015 – 8 February 2025 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | President's Rule | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ravinder Singh Negi | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Patparganj | ||||||||||
| In office 8 December 2013 – 10 February 2014 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Anil Kumar Choudhary | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | President's Rule | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Patparganj | ||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||
| Born | 5 January 1972 Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||||
| Political party | Aam Aadmi Party | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Seema Sisodia | ||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||
| Residence | AB-17, Mathura Road, East Delhi | ||||||||||
| Education | DJMC | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | ||||||||||
| Occupation | |||||||||||
Manish Sisodia (born 5 January 1972) is an Indian politician, journalist and former social activist who served as the first Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi from 2015 to 2023. He represented the Patparganj constituency in Delhi Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2025 and had also represented the constituency from 2013 to 2014. He is one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a member of its National Executive Committee.
Sisodia was a cabinet minister in the Government of Delhi between December 2013 and February 2014 and continued to hold several cabinet positions after becoming the Deputy Chief Minister, including the portfolio of Education Minister through which he credited himself with reforming and overhauling the public education sector in Delhi.
He resigned from all cabinet positions following his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on corruption charges in a major liquor scam. There are counter-allegations against the Central Government and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of misusing investigative agencies such as the CBI and ED to target their political opposition and Sisodia is one of several politicians with cases against them. He was in judicial custody between February 2023 and August 2024. He received bail from the Supreme Court of India on 9 August 2024, which according to him was a "victory for honesty and truth", in the face of a vindictive witchhunt by an insecure dispensation empowered by its caged parrots. He is also accused of insulting fellow Party worker and renowned Poet Dr. Kumar Vishwas and his wife. He is often linked to various scams orchestrated by former chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal.