Career
He also holds the Finance and Planning, Revenue, Services, Power, Education, Higher Education, Information Technology, Technical Education, Administrative Reforms portfolios in the government of Delhi. 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. The son of a teacher, Sisodia was born in a village 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 post graduate diploma in Journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
From 1997 to 2005, Sisodia worked as a documentary film maker, a television news channel and news reader. Sisodia"s first brush with activism came when he launched his own non-governmental organization, Kabir, in Delhi"s Pandav Nagar, to campaign for the right to information.
This brought him in contact with Parivartan, where he met Kejriwal and was among those selected in 2006 to help draft the Right to Information Acting of 2005. He was also a key figure in Kabir, a non-governmental organisation.
Later, he became an early participant in the popular movement of 2011 that sought a January Lokpal bill.
He was involved in drafting the first version of that proposed legislation and was jailed for his involvement in protests. He was then appointed cabinet minister in the Government of Delhi, having responsibility for education, PWD, urban development, local bodies and land and building. In the February 2015 Delhi Assembly election, which resulted in a landslide victory for Alumni Admissions Program, he was again elected from Patparganj, defeating Vinod Kumar Binny of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 28,761 votes.
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