New Delhi: Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, a close confidant of party chief Arvind Kejriwal, is all set to be the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi.
<img title="AAP leader Manish Sisodia. File Pic" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/aug/Manish-Sisodia.jpg" alt="AAP leader Manish Sisodia. File Pic" width="650" height="433" /> AAP leader Manish Sisodia. File Pic
The decision to make Sisodia the Deputy CM was taken at a meeting of AAP's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) last night at Kejriwal's residence in Kaushambhi, party sources said. Sisodia is being given the responsibility so that Chief Minister-designate Kejriwal can focus on building the party at the national level, they said.
Sisodia is credited with strengthening AAP at the grassroot level after it lost all the seven parliamentary constituencies in the Lok Sabha elections last year. He was minister of Education, PWD, Urban Development and Local Bodies in the 49-day AAP government that had resigned on February 14 last year on the Lokpal issue.
Kejriwal, Sisodia and other cabinet ministers will take oath of office at Ramlila ground on Saturday. Sisodia had won from Patparganj constituency defeating BJP's Vinod Kumar Binny who was expelled from the party last year. He had worked as a journalist with Zee News and All India Radio for a long time.
He later quit journalism to participate in the agitation for Right To Information. He was one of the founding members of the Janlokpal agitation and part of the team which chalked out its first draft. When Anna Hazare was arrested and sent to jail during the agitation, he too was sent to prison.

Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, a close confidant of party chief Arvind Kejriwal, is all set to be the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi

AAP's Manish Sisodia to be Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi

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