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Manish Sisodia
Manish Sisodia is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and a former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi. Sisodia won the Patparganj Assembly constituency thrice in a row in 2013, 2015, and 2020. He contested the Delhi Assembly Election in 2013 for the first time from Patparganj and won against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Nakul Bhardwaj by 11,476 votes. Congress candidate Anil Kumar stood at third. In the 2015 Delhi Assembly Election, Sisodia retained the seat by defeating BJP's Vinod Kumar Binny with an increased margin of 28,791 votes. Congress leader Anil Kumar remained in the third position. Sisodia won the seat again in 2020 but with a reduced margin of 3,207 votes. BJP candidate Ravinder Singh Negi gave him a tough fight. Sisodia has decided to shift his constituency in the upcoming Delhi Election and will be contesting from Jangpura against BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah and Congress candidate Farhad Suri. Sisodia also held several ministries, including Finance, Education, PWD, Tourism, Labour, Land and Building, etc., in the Arvind Kejriwal Cabinet.
Manish Sisodia
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Breaking News, August 20
India | Aug 20, 2022, 11:56 PM ISTIndiaTV News provides you all the breaking news, latest news, breaking story videos, Live TV on a single platform to ensure you don't miss the biggest happenings in India and the world.
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Delhi liquor policy scam: Manish Sisodia raided, AAP says BJP scared of Kejriwal's popularity
India | Aug 19, 2022, 11:33 PM ISTDelhi Liquor Policy scam: According to reports, the physical search is over at Manish Sisodia's residence. Emails are being dumped and seizure memos of seized papers and electronic evidence are being filled. After completing the dump and seizure memo, the CBI search will be completed.
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NYT says story on Delhi education system impartial, rejects paid news charge
India | Aug 19, 2022, 09:10 PM ISTAAP NYT Article: The AAP said the Narendra Modi government sent the CBI to Sisodia's home after The New York Times carried a positive story on the Delhi model of education, and the BJP hit back saying it was a "paid" article.
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AAP NYT article: BJP claims paid advertisement, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann counters
India | Aug 19, 2022, 08:36 PM ISTManish Sisodia raided: Taking to Twitter, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said, "The @nytimes has denied that its front page story was a paid story or advertisement. An NYT spokesman tells me that other publications licence its content and republish it."
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Manish Sisodia raided: It will be Modi vs Kejriwal in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, says AAP's Sanjay Singh
India | Aug 19, 2022, 07:55 PM ISTDelhi Excise Duty scam: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also claimed that Prime Minister Modi is "rattled" by the "growing popularity" of Delhi chief minister Kejriwal and his model of governance.
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Delhi excise policy: Liquor trader paid Rs 1 crore to associate of Sisodia, says CBI FIR
India | Aug 19, 2022, 07:07 PM ISTDelhi excise policy scam: The agency, which carried out raids at Sisodia's official residence in central Delhi and 20 other locations in seven states and Union territories on Friday, named 15 people in its FIR registered on August 17.
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Delhi liquor policy scam: Manish Sisodia is accused no.1 in CBI FIR
India | Aug 19, 2022, 06:41 PM ISTDelhi Excise Duty scam: The Central Burea of Investigation (CBI) has CBI has listed 15 accused, including Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, in its FIR on the alleged excise scam, officials said.
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Delhi excise policy: Kejriwal govt involved in ‘liquor scam’; 2 middlemen left India, alleges BJP
India | Aug 19, 2022, 03:44 PM ISTDelhi excise policy scam: West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma had accused Sisodia of corruption, and that two "middlemen", who used to collect cash from liquor licenses, have left the country.
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Manish Sisodia raided: What's the controversy around Kejriwal govt's new Excise Policy?
India | Aug 19, 2022, 04:02 PM ISTManish Sisodia raided: It is alleged that undue financial favours were extended to liquor licensees after the tenders were awarded causing loss to the exchequer, in the new liquor excise policy of the Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi.
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Delhi Excise Minister Manish Sisodia has become 'excuse minister': Anurag Thakur
India | Aug 19, 2022, 01:23 PM ISTManish Sisodia news: Sisodia, who also holds the excise portfolio in the Delhi government, said the agency probe against him was to derail his work to improve education facilities in the national capital.
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Amid raids, Kejriwal tweets pic of Sisodia on New York Times: 'Best education minister in the world'
India | Aug 19, 2022, 01:04 PM ISTManish Sisodia CBI raids: "There is no need to panic since there will be obstacles to stop our work. The CBI has been asked from above to harass us," Kejriwal said.
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Manish Sisodia CBI raids highlights: Trader paid Rs 1 crore to associate of Sisodia, says CBI FIR
India | Aug 19, 2022, 08:46 PM ISTManish Sisodia CBI raid: Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the Kejriwal government's Excise Policy, 2021-22, over alleged violations of rules and procedural lapses.
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Breaking News, August 19
India | Aug 19, 2022, 11:41 PM ISTIndiaTV News provides you all the breaking news, latest news, breaking story videos, Live TV on a single platform to ensure you don't miss the biggest happenings in India and the world.
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Don't play 'Dostwadi' politics, invest in citizens: Sisodia slams BJP over freebies issue
India | Aug 12, 2022, 05:31 PM ISTManish Sisodia slams BJP: At a press conference at the Delhi Secretariat, he claimed there are two models of governance. One is the 'Dostwadi' model and the other is investing in public welfare schemes, Sisodia claimed.
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Sisodia accuses ex-Delhi LG Baijal of changing stance on opening liquor shops in unauthorised areas
India | Aug 06, 2022, 04:11 PM ISTDelhi Liquor policy: Sisodia said he has sent the details of the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and asserted that there should be a probe into it.
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Delhi govt to revert to old retail liquor sale policy: Officials
India | Jul 29, 2022, 10:29 PM ISTDelhi liquor policy: The Excise Policy 2021-22, which was extended twice after March 31 for a period of two months each, will come to an end on July 31.
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Centre tried to hijack AAP govt plantation event; CM Kejriwal not to attend programme: Gopal Rai
India | Jul 24, 2022, 12:51 PM ISTGopal Rai said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was supposed to attend the event at the Asola Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Delhi Congress demands Manish Sisodia's resignation over alleged lapses in excise policy
India | Jul 23, 2022, 04:58 PM ISTDelhi liquor policy: Several Delhi Congress leaders and workers gathered near the DDU Marg office of the AAP, holding banners and raising slogans against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Sisodia.
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Kejriwal cries foul after L-G orders probe into liquor policy, says 'Sisodia could be arrested'
India | Jul 22, 2022, 02:01 PM ISTArvind Kejriwal cries foul: L-G V K Saxena has recommended a CBI probe into the Delhi government's excise policy which directly names Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
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Delhi LG recommends CBI probe into AAP govt's excise policy, Kejriwal cries foul
India | Jul 22, 2022, 01:04 PM ISTThe BJP and Congress had vociferously opposed the policy and lodged complaint with the LG as well as central agencies for a probe into it.