Manish Sisodia is Delhi’s Chief Minister. Wait, what? When did this happen? Where is Arvind Kejriwal? Well, there is no…
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Manish Sisodia is Delhi’s Chief Minister. Wait, what? When did this happen? Where is Arvind Kejriwal? Well, there is no need to panic, because Sisodia is still the Deputy Chief Minister and not the Chief Minister. All this confusion started when Wikipedia introduced him as the ‘chief minister’ on March 15.
Wikipedia, the online repository of all information in the world, mentioned Manish Sisodia as “an Indian politician who has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015”.
In fact, the erroneous entry also mentioned Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister, as you can see below:
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Sisodia also holds the portfolios of Tourism, Education, Finance, Planning, Land & Building, Vigilance, Services, Women and Child, Art, Culture & Languages, and other Departments not allotted to any other minister.
There was no change in Sisodia’s designation on the Wikipedia page at the time this report was published at 1.46 pm, with the page saying it was last edited at 5.18 am on 15 March 2018. A couple of hours later, however, the entry was corrected and Sisodia was ‘reinstated’ as the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi.
Efforts to reach the Deputy CM for a comment did not succeed.
It should be noted that Wikipedia is not a reliable source for information. Reports have previously stated that many Wikipedia articles, especially those related to medical science, are factually incorrect. The principle reason behind it is that Wikipedia is an open-source platform on which information can be accessed and edited by anyone in the world.
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