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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.

Take out at least a day to travel via cycle, Sisodia urges Delhiites amid rising air pollution
India | Nov 14, 2021, 10:30 PM IST
Sisodia remarks came as he flagged off a cycle rally as part of the Delhi government's Rahagiri program at West Vinod Nagar, Patparganj on Sunday.
National Achievement Survey: Sisodia seeks deferment, writes to Dharmendra Pradhan
Education | Nov 12, 2021, 06:43 AM IST
Sisodia, who is also Delhi's Education Minister, said the data collected in the survey will not be "reliable" as schools have not completely opened after a prolonged closure due to COVID-19
AAP to project Bhandari community person as CM face in Goa Assembly polls
Elections | Nov 11, 2021, 04:39 PM IST
In the 2017 elections to the 40-member Goa assembly, the AAP ran a high-profile campaign in the state but did not win a single seat.

Delhi schools for nursery to Class 8 to reopen from November 1
Education | Oct 27, 2021, 07:28 PM IST
Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia informed that schools will be allowed to reopen following Covid-19 guidelines
Manish Sisodia urges Centre to issue guidelines for Chhath, writes to health minister
India | Oct 12, 2021, 09:54 PM IST
Celebrated after Diwali, Chhath involves an offering of 'Arghya' by fasting women to the Sun god in knee-deep water.
Coal crisis may stop everything, Centre in denial: Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia
India | Oct 10, 2021, 10:46 PM IST
Sisodia further said that if the Centre doesn't take any step, another crisis will rise in the country.

Technology can never replace classroom teaching and learning: Manish Sisodia
Education | Oct 08, 2021, 12:22 PM IST
"Technology is a tool to improve education, it can add value to education, but technology can never replace classroom teaching-learning experience. If that were the case, schools and colleges in countries leading in technology would have shut down decades ago, and the entire education system would have shifted to digital platforms," Sisodia said
Manish Sisodia gives 48.14 crores to 6,820 students pursuing higher education
Education | Oct 04, 2021, 11:36 PM IST
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia handed over cheques for Rs 48.14 crore to 6,820 students pursuing higher education under the Delhi government's "Merit-cum-Means" financial assistance scheme.
Delhi government's Deshbhakti Curriculum: Explained
Education | Sep 29, 2021, 06:07 PM IST
Post the 'Happiness Curriculum' and 'Entrepreneur Mindset Curriculum', 'Deshbhakti Curriculum' is Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led government's third such experiment.

India needs job-makers to pin itself on global, export map: Sisodia
Education | Sep 22, 2021, 04:11 PM IST
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia believes it is important for students to aspire to become job makers.
AAP to launch 'Tiranga Yatra' in Ayodhya today
India | Sep 14, 2021, 10:51 AM IST
Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh had reached Ayodhya on Monday, a day ahead of the yatra.
Delhi govt's 'Business Blasters' project for students an investment in India's economy: Sisodia
Education | Sep 10, 2021, 06:32 PM IST
Arvind Kejriwal government rolled out the 'Business Blasters' project under which seed money will be given to students of classes 9 to 12 and they, in turn, have to invest it for running small businesses

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia announces Rs 2000 each to over 3.5 lakh govt school students
Education | Sep 06, 2021, 10:41 PM IST
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and state Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday announced seed money of Rs 2,000 to 3,50,000 students at over 1,000 government schools.
Happiness Curriculum is a massive success: Manish Sisodia
Education | Sep 05, 2021, 10:29 AM IST
Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia says that the Delhi government’s Happiness Curriculum in schools is a “massive success”.
Delhi govt directs private, unaided schools to vaccinate staff ahead of reopening
Education | Aug 28, 2021, 11:27 AM IST
Delhi government has directed private aided and unaided schools to vaccinate their teachers and staff ahead of the reopening for classes 9-12

Misleading, to say least: Govt on Sisodia's remark over Delhi's oxygen shortage deaths probe
India | Aug 23, 2021, 01:18 PM IST
The Centre clarified that neither Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal nor the Government of India said that deaths due to oxygen shortage should not be probed.
L-G again rejects proposal for panel to probe deaths due to oxygen shortage: Sisodia
India | Aug 20, 2021, 06:19 PM IST
No one can deny that Delhi grappled with an oxygen crisis in April and May during the second Covid wave and also no one can deny that people died in the capital due to a shortage of oxygen, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said during an online press conference.
DBSE receives approval for exams, certification & equivalence: Sisodia
Education | Aug 14, 2021, 04:51 PM IST
DBSE has received approval from apex bodies for examination, certification and equivalence with other recognised boards, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Friday.
Without a probe, difficult to ascertain data on oxygen-related death: Sisodia writes to Mandaviya
India | Aug 12, 2021, 03:11 PM IST
Sisodia said the Delhi government had formed a committee to probe the deaths and prepare a report so that the affected families can be given a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each.
Delhi Chief Secretary assault case: Court discharges CM Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia
India | Aug 11, 2021, 07:39 PM IST
A Delhi court has discharged Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and nine other AAP MLAs in a case related to the alleged assault on the then chief secretary Anshu Prakash in 2018.