31 Facts About Manish Sisodia

Manish Sisodia was born on 5 January 1972 and is an Indian politician, journalist and former social activist who served as the first Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi from 2015 to 2023.

Manish Sisodia represented the Patparganj constituency in Delhi Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2025 and had represented the constituency from 2013 to 2014.

Manish Sisodia is one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party and a member of its National Executive Committee.

Manish Sisodia resigned from all cabinet positions following his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation, on corruption charges in a major liquor scam.

Manish Sisodia was in judicial custody between February 2023 and August 2024.

Manish Sisodia 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.

Manish Sisodia is often linked to various scams orchestrated by former chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal.

Manish Sisodia was born in a Hindu Rajput family of Phagauta village in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh.

Manish Sisodia worked as radio jockey in FM radio station during his early career.

Manish Sisodia used to host several programs like "Zero Hour" for All India Radio in 1996 and then worked for Zee News as a reporter, news producer and news reader between 1997 and 2005.

Manish Sisodia was one of the key members of the group that drafted the Right to Information Act.

Subsequently, Manish Sisodia became a key participant in the Anna Hazare led India Against Corruption movement of 2011 that sought a Jan Lokpal bill.

Manish Sisodia was involved in drafting the first version of that proposed legislation and was jailed for his involvement in protests.

Manish Sisodia was one of the key founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Manish Sisodia became a member of its Political Affairs Committee.

Manish Sisodia was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the December 2013 Delhi Assembly election, when he defeated Nakul Bhardwaj, a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, by 11,476 votes in the Patparganj constituency of East Delhi.

Manish Sisodia was a cabinet minister in all the three Kejriwal ministries and held the charge of below listed departments of the Government of Delhi during the Third Kejriwal Ministry-.

Manish Sisodia resigned from the cabinet on 28 February 2023, after being arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for the Delhi liquor policy scam.

Manish Sisodia has experimented with new age curricula viz Happiness Curriculum and Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum and Deshbhakti Curriculum which instill values and skills in the students and prepare them to live a happy, meaningful and productive life.

In December 2021, Manish Sisodia presented Mindset Curricula at RewirEd Summit in Dubai, to the education fraternity from all across the world.

Manish Sisodia has taken many initiatives in the field of Higher and Technical Education that includes establishing three innovative new state universities- Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University in 2020, Delhi Sports University in 2021 and Delhi Teachers University in 2022.

In 2020, Manish Sisodia found himself in a controversy involving allegations of fund misappropriation at four Delhi University colleges.

Manish Sisodia's accusations were based on the preliminary observations of an independent audit initiated by the Delhi Government at seven DU colleges it funds.

Manish Sisodia claimed that the four colleges had misused government grants and kept the funds in fixed deposits.

DUPA President and the principals of the implicated colleges claimed that Manish Sisodia's allegations were unfounded and politically motivated.

Manish Sisodia has started one of its kind Outcome Budget, which is one of the most comprehensive in India linking public spending to over 2,200 output indicators and 1,549 outcome indicators across 39 departments.

Manish Sisodia is the only finance minister of any state to have presented eight consecutive budgets.

Manish Sisodia has said that elections should be fought on the agendas of education and health and not on caste and religion.

At the World Education Conference in Moscow in 2018, Manish Sisodia said that the real contribution to society is the building of a quality education system in the country and the task of education is to equip the students to address present-day challenges, including terrorism, pollution, corruption and gender discrimination.

Manish Sisodia was arrested on 26 February 2023 in relation to the Excise Scam by CBI.

AAP and Manish Sisodia have strongly denied these charges as being politically motivated.