Manjinder Singh Sirsa

Manjinder Singh Sirsa is a Delhi Sikh politician who rose through the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), left the Shiromani Akali Dal for the BJP in December 2021 and was sworn in as a Delhi cabinet minister in February 2025. He is a living public figure, so the account below follows The Tribune's reporting and attributes its views to it.

Who he is. The Tribune reported in February 2025 that he was 52, a week short of his 53rd birthday on 28 February.

Key moments

• February 2013 to March 2019: general secretary of the DSGMC, the longest-serving in that post.
• 2013: he first won the Rajouri Garden seat in the Delhi Assembly, on a Shiromani Akali Dal ticket.
• 2017: he won the Rajouri Garden bypoll while still in the Akali Dal but contesting as a BJP-backed candidate, since the two parties were allies then.
• 2019 to 2022: president of the DSGMC, the governing body of the gurdwaras of Delhi.
• December 2021: he resigned from the Akali Dal and joined the BJP, citing personal reasons. In August 2023 he was made a BJP national secretary.
• February 2025: he won Rajouri Garden for the third time, beating AAP's Dhanwati Chandela by 18,190 votes, and on 20 February he took the oath as a cabinet minister. The Tribune called him the first Sikh to hold a ministerial post in the Delhi government after a decade of AAP rule.

Why he matters to this record. He is one of the best known Delhi Sikh leaders to move from Akali politics into the BJP. The Tribune notes that the BJP, which won only two seats in Punjab in 2022, is expected to rely on him as its key Sikh face in the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections. It also describes him as known for community service, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.