The General Gyan Dated Sept 18,2024

 

         Atishi Marlena

|- On 17 September 2024, she was named as the Chief Minister of Delhi in a meeting of Aam Admi Party MLAs at the residence of Arvind Kejriwal. With this, she went on to become the youngest ever CM of Delhi at an age of 43.

|- Born on June 08,1981 she is the 8th and Third woman Chief Minister of the Union Territory (Delhi) after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit. 

|- She graduated in history from the St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 2001. 

|- She then went to the University of Oxford, and in 2003 she completed her master's degree in history on a Chevening scholarship. 

|- In 2005, she went to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.

|- She is the MLA from Kalkaji, Delhi and has been involved with the party since 2013.

|- Atishi was appointed the Lok Sabha in-charge for East Delhi for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

She contested from the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency as an AAP party candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. She lost to BJP's candidate Gautam Gambhir by a margin of 4.77 lakh votes, coming in third.

|- Until April 2018, Ms. Atishi served as Education Minister Manish Sisodia’s Advisor.

|- She became a Minister in the Delhi cabinet in 2023 after Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain resigned as ministers.