
Manish Sisodia is an Indian politician who was Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi from February 2015 until he resigned on 28 February 2023. He held the Finance and Planning, Revenue, Services, Power, Education, Higher Education, Information Technology, Technical Education and Administrative Reforms portfolios in the Delhi government. He was MLA for Patparganj from 2015 to 2025 and contested Jangpura unsuccessfully in 2025; the Aam Aadmi Party left office in Delhi in February 2025.Previously, he was briefly a cabinet minister in the Government of Delhi between late December 2013 and February 2014, when he had responsibility for education, PWD, urban development, local bodies and land and building. Prior to being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Delhi in December 2013, Sisodia was a social activist and journalist as well as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Aam Aadmi Party.
About Manish Sisodia Ji
The son of a teacher, Sisodia was born in a town called Pilkhuwa in Hapur district in a Rajput family in (Uttar Pradesh). Sisodia subsequently shifted to the town of Pilkhuva, 50 kilometres from Delhi where he commenced his career as a journalist after completing a diploma in Journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. From 1997 to 2005, Sisodia worked as a documentary film maker, a TV news channel and news reader.
Offices and terms on this page were last verified in September 2026 against publicly available records. Earlier versions described ministerial posts that have since ended.
Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha today
This profile was published on India Vote Kar in July 2016 and describes Manish Sisodia as it stood then. Uttar Pradesh returns 80 members to the 18th Lok Sabha, elected in 2024; the first 12 by seat number are:
- Saharanpur — Imran Masood, Indian National Congress
- Kairana — Iqra Choudhary, Samajwadi Party
- Muzaffarnagar — Harendra Singh Malik, Samajwadi Party
- Bijnor — Chandan Chauhan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Nagina — Chandrashekhar Azad, Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
- Moradabad — Ruchi Veera, Samajwadi Party
- Rampur — Mohibbullah Nadvi, Samajwadi Party
- Sambhal — Zia ur Rahman Barq, Samajwadi Party
- Amroha — Kanwar Singh Tanwar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Meerut — Arun Govil, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Baghpat — Rajkumar Sangwan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Ghaziabad — Atul Garg, Bharatiya Janata Party
