Manish Sisodia: Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is under CBI custody in the Liquor Policy scam. Not only is Sisodia number two in the Delhi government, he is also the biggest leader in the Aam Aadmi Party after Arvind Kejriwal. The party, the Delhi government and Arvind Kejriwal himself are in trouble with his being made an accused in the scam and now with his arrest, as all three do not have an alternative to Sisodia. Because finding another ‘Manish Sisodia’ for AAP government is not an easy task

Manish Sisodia: holds 18 portfolios out of total 33 in Delhi government. After the arrest of Sisodia, the biggest problem is that who will handle his work. Another minister of Kejriwal, Satyendar Jain is already in jail. Sisodia was also looking after the work of Jain’s departments. Sisodia has the most important departments like education, public works, finance, excise, energy, water, health. His colleagues tell that he holds 12 to 15 meetings a day.

Manish Sisodia: It is not easy to replace Sisodia

He also believes that it will not be easy for any other leader to replace Sisodia. In February 2020, Chief Minister Kejriwal had given up his remaining portfolios. After this, Sisodia was also looking after these departments. There is no leader of the stature of Sisodia in the Aam Aadmi Party and such a trustworthy person of Arvind Kejriwal at the moment.

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The Delhi government is preparing the budget for the next financial year. Manish Sisodia was looking after all the work of the budget. The budget of the Delhi government was about Rs 30,000 crore before the Aam Aadmi Party came to power, which has now become Rs 75,000 crore. Budget preparations will also be affected if Finance Minister Sisodia goes to jail. It would be difficult for any other minister to work on the budget so soon.

Manish Sisodia: How important is Manish Sisodia to the party?

Political analyst:  Rashid Kidwai says, “Manish Sisodia’s position in the Aam Aadmi Party is very important. Be it the management of the Municipal Corporation or the work of the Delhi Government, big responsibilities rest with him. He only sees what to talk to whom to run the government and the party. In such a situation, there will be an impact on the functioning of the government and the party.

The Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal got maximum support from the Hindi heartland right from the days of the India Against Corruption Movement. The working style of the party has also won the trust of the voters of the Hindi heartland. Here the biggest fight the Aam Aadmi Party is with the BJP.

AAP party’s corruption free image at stake

There are elections in big states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the coming months. The Aam Aadmi Party has formed its cadre in these states in the 2019 elections. After the victory in Punjab, the party had made up its mind to contest elections seriously in these states. Sisodia had a big responsibility in this work.

After the arrest of Sisodia, 2 situations can be created- one, the corrupted image of Sisodia and AAP should be created among the public, but the Aam Aadmi Party will not want this at all. The second situation will be that this message should go among the people that the central government has got Sisodia arrested to stop AAP.

The Aam Aadmi Party is working on preparing this second situation and capitalizing on it in the coming elections. Experts say that for this, work is going on on all the strategies from reaching the public social media.