NEW DELHI : Team Kejriwal took over the reins of the Delhi government today.
Manish Sisodia is the second most important face of the Aam Aadmi Party after Arvind Kejriwal.
Sisodia, won from Patparganj defeating BJP candidate Vinod Kumar Binny, who had left the AAP to join the saffron party. A former journalist, Sisodia was made minister for education and PWD in the first AAP government. He was born in a Rajput family in Faugata village of Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh on February 2, 1972. Sisodia quit journalism and got involved in movement for social awareness and participated in the agitation for Right to Information (RTI).
Along with Kejriwal, he was also a founder of an NGO Public Cause Research Foundation in 2006.
Sisodia was also a key figure in another NGO ‘Kabir’ and participated in the Jan Lokpal movement. Gopal Rai, who won from Babarpur in Delhi Assembly elections, is a social activist.
He defeated BJP’s Naresh Gaur with a margin of 35,488 votes. Rai,a member of the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, is a post-graduate in Sociology from Lucknow University.
He began his public life with the All India Students Association, the student wing of the Communist Party of India in Lucknow University in 1992.
Rai had lost the 2013 Assembly elections from the Babarpur constituency.
Asim Ahmed Khan, 38, defeated Congress candidate Shoaib Iqbal in Matia Mahal by a significant margin of 26,096 votes. A graduate, Khan is among the four Muslim candidates of the AAP who won the Delhi elections.
Iqbal had represented the Matia Mahal seat consecutively for five times.
In 2012, Khan had contested Delhi municipal elections and had secured 6,300 votes.
According to Khan’s profile on AAP’s website, he has been part of many social activities in education, heath and culture. Khan wants to devote attention for the issues like education and health in his constituency, his profile says. Sandeep Kumar, a software engineer, is a firm believer in ‘Swaraj’.
He had participated in the Jan Lokpal movement. Kumar defeated BJP’s Prabhu Dayal from Sultanpur Majra by a margin of 64,439 votes.
Jitendra Tomar, who won from Tri Nagar, had courted controversy in connection with alleged fake degree certificate. He defeated BJP’s Nand Kishore Garg with a margin of 22,311 votes.
Satyendra Jain, a two-time MLA from Shakur Basti, has again been made a minister in the Kejriwal Cabinet. He handled the health portfolio in the previous AAP government.
Jain had also participated in the Jan Lokpal movement. (AGENCIES)
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